Power Man #39

Luke Cage leaps into medieval-flavored chaos on this January 1977 Marvel issue, where the cover — penciled by Ron Wilson and inked by Jim Mooney — throws Power Man into a swirling melee at a stone castle, clashing against an armored figure wielding a crackling energy lance on horseback, with additional combatants and a rearing black horse filling the frame. The bold tagline "Mayhem at Milehigh Keep!" promises the kind of brawl that only Luke Cage can walk into wearing a tiara and a yellow shirt and still come out on top. With Marv Wolfman and Bill Mantlo sharing writing duties and Bob Brown's art brought to life by Klaus Janson's inks, "Battle with the Baron" looks like a wildly entertaining collision of street-level heroism and old-world villainy.