Marvel Presents #7

This October 1976 issue of Marvel Presents drops readers into a chaotic scene as a luminous, flame-wreathed female figure — Nikki — writhes in apparent agony amid strange machinery while her teammates scramble around her: a white-suited hero shouts "Stay back!" as a red-helmeted Guardian and a powerful figure in gold face off nearby, with the tagline warning that "the universe trembles." Al Milgrom's cover crackles with urgency, packing in desperate expressions and clashing bodies that make the stakes feel genuinely enormous. Steve Gerber's "Embrace the Void!" promises exactly the kind of cosmic drama that made the Guardians of the Galaxy such a compelling corner of the Marvel universe in the mid-70s.