Marvel Two-in-One Annual #3

This 1978 King-Size Annual teams the ever-lovin' blue-eyed Thing with the Man Called Nova against a menace that calls itself the Monitors — and the cover by Ron Wilson and Pablo Marcos makes the stakes unmistakably clear. A towering, green-faced villain dominates the image, clutching a blonde woman while Nova strikes at him and the battered Thing sprawls at his feet, with the cover's own dialogue warning that the world itself is doomed if our heroes fail. With Marv Wolfman scripting and Sal Buscema on interior art, this annual delivers the kind of oversized, all-hands-on-deck adventure that made Marvel's late-'70s annuals such a treat.