Marvel Treasury Edition #28

The cover of this 1981 DC and Marvel co-production says it all: Superman and Spider-Man stand side by side against Doctor Doom and the Parasite, with the two villains caught mid-confrontation in a gritty industrial wreckage setting — penciled and inked by Bob Larkin with cover pencils also by John Romita. At the oversized Marvel Treasury Edition format, it's a genuinely thrilling meeting of two comics universes, with "The Heroes and the Holocaust!" written by Jim Shooter and Marv Wolfman and drawn by John Buscema. Few 1981 comics could boast this kind of cross-publisher ambition, and the cover delivers on its promise with real energy.