Hero for Hire #9

Luke Cage faces one of Marvel's most formidable villains in this 1973 showdown, the cover declaring it plainly: "Showdown with Dr. Doom!" Billy Graham's cover art captures the confrontation vividly — an armored, green-caped Doctor Doom levels a weapon at Cage while proclaiming "the power of life and death," as a chain-bearing Luke strains against the assault amid bursts of flame and stone. With Steve Englehart writing and George Tuska on interior art, "Where Angels Fear To Tread!" promises the kind of bold, street-level storytelling that made Hero for Hire one of Marvel's most distinctive books of its era.