Master of Kung Fu #78

A darkly costumed, armed figure dominates the foreground of Mike Zeck's cover, crossbow in hand, while a bare-chested Shang-Chi — red-banded headband, red trousers — crashes through splintering wood in the background, flanked by the snarling heads of a bear and a wolf mounted on the wall. The tagline "Moving Targets!" says everything you need to know about the tension Zeck has packed into this 1979 installment of Marvel's premier martial-arts series. With Doug Moench scripting and "Tread the Night Softly" as the story's evocative title, this issue has the moody atmosphere that made Master of Kung Fu one of the most distinctive books of its era.