Hawkeye #3

The penultimate chapter of Marvel's 1983 four-issue Hawkeye limited series arrives with a cover — penciled by Mark Gruenwald and inked by Bob Layton — that throws its two heroes straight into a storm of spiked, eye-emblazoned orbs closing in from every direction. Hawkeye draws his bow with cool precision while his blue-clad, bo-staff-wielding partner fights back-to-back with him inside a shrinking circle of clear space, the odds stacking up fast around them. It's a striking image that makes "Beating the Odds" feel like exactly the right title for this moment in the series.