Man-Thing #21

Steve Gerber's run on Man-Thing was firing on all cylinders by 1975, and this issue drops Marvel's shambling swamp creature right into the urban chaos of a city street — the cover by Gil Kane and Frank Giacoia captures the Man-Thing mid-brawl with a purple-and-yellow costumed figure identified as the Scavenger, with a bent street sign marking Broadway and 42nd Street crashing around them as bystanders and police scramble in the background. The tagline "A Lunatic on Every Corner!" sets an wonderfully unhinged tone that matches the anything-goes spirit of Gerber's storytelling. Jim Mooney handles the interior art, with colors by Janice Cohen bringing the murky greens of the Man-Thing into sharp contrast against the chaos of the city.