Power Man #21

The cover of Power Man #21 says it all: Luke Cage squares off against a red-suited impostor who has stolen the Power Man name, and the speech bubbles make the stakes bracingly clear — only one of them walks away with the title, and the other gets called "dead." Ron Wilson's pencils and Frank Giacoia's inks bring real kinetic energy to the punch-for-punch standoff, with both fighters trading blows in a collision that feels genuinely dangerous. Tony Isabella and Len Wein's story, "The Killer with My Name!," promises the kind of identity-and-honor conflict that made Luke Cage one of Marvel's most compelling street-level heroes in 1974.