Ka-Zar #4

Frank Brunner's cover for this 1974 Marvel issue sets the stakes immediately: Ka-Zar is bound and stretched helplessly across a frame while a snarling villain lunges toward him, commanding the mighty saber-toothed Zabu to turn against his own companion. The tension between Ka-Zar's captivity and Zabu's coiled, fangs-bared fury makes for a genuinely gripping image — loyalty and betrayal hanging in the balance in the Savage Land's hidden jungle. With a story by Mike Friedrich and interior art from Don Heck, issue #4 promises plenty of high-stakes adventure beneath that tagline, "Into the Shadow of Death!