Marvel Tales #41

Spider-Man swings straight at the reader in full dynamic stride on this 1973 Marvel Tales cover by Gil Kane and Jim Mooney, while a full squad of armed soldiers — backed by a tank — closes in from every angle. His own speech balloon says it best: "I'll take on any super-baddie — but how can one-man fight the whole blinkin' army?" With the story titled "Disaster!" and that kind of odds stacked against him, this issue promises exactly the breathless, against-the-wall Spider-Man action that made the early '70s such a great time to be a Marvel fan.