Iron Man #182

Few covers hit as hard as this one. Luke McDonnell and Steve Mitchell strip away the armor entirely, presenting a small, huddled Tony Stark collapsed in the snow — dwarfed by the stark declaration "In the morning, Tony Stark will be sober… or dead." It's a bracingly honest image for 1984, and Denny O'Neil's story title, "Deliverance," promises that whatever waits inside, the stakes couldn't feel more human.