Power Man #31

Piranha Jones makes a menacing entrance in this 1976 Marvel thriller, lunging toward the reader with a mouthful of razor-sharp teeth while a swarm of his namesake "deadly pets" churns the water all around him — and a cornered Luke Cage weighs his grim options in the background. Rich Buckler and Dan Adkins deliver a cover that puts you right in the middle of the danger, the threat of being eaten alive rendered with visceral, aquatic urgency. With Don McGregor scripting and Sal Buscema on interior art, Power Man #31 promises the kind of street-level heroism pushed to its absolute limits.