Machine Man #1

The opening issue of this four-part 1984 Marvel limited series announces itself with a striking Barry Windsor-Smith cover: Machine Man's face peers upward, half-human and half-mechanical, as an extraordinary tangle of multicolored wires, cables, and circuitry erupts from his open skull into the surrounding blue expanse. A corner inset introduces four supporting characters, hinting at the human world Aaron Stack navigates alongside his remarkable robotic existence. With Tom DeFalco scripting and Herb Trimpe and Windsor-Smith sharing interior art duties, this is a series that clearly has both visual ambition and storytelling craft to match.