Power Man #34

From 1976, this Marvel entry puts Luke Cage, Power Man, in serious danger as the cover — penciled by Rich Buckler and inked by Pablo Marcos — plunges him into a brutal two-on-one brawl. A masked villain with vicious mechanical claws (the Mangler) and a spear-wielding adversary close in on Cage simultaneously, with speech bubbles taunting that he's a dead man, making the threat feel genuinely dire. Subtitled "Murder Times Two!" right on the cover, this issue promises the kind of street-level, high-stakes action that made Power Man one of Marvel's most compelling titles of the mid-'70s.