Marvel Two-in-One #29

Marvel's reliable team-up series brings together an unlikely but compelling duo in this July 1977 issue — the ever-lovin' blue-eyed Thing and Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu, fighting back-to-back against a swarming wave of Hydra agents. Rich Buckler and Frank Giacoia's cover crackles with kinetic energy, showing Ben Grimm's rocky orange fists flying while Shang-Chi delivers razor-sharp strikes amid the green-uniformed horde, with speech bubbles hinting that the stakes are nothing less than world domination. Writer Marv Wolfman and artist Ron Wilson make this pairing of brute strength and martial-arts mastery feel entirely natural, and the promise of the Thing and Shang-Chi united against the hordes of Hydra is more than enough reason to pick this one up.