Power Man #47

Luke Cage — steel-skinned hero for hire — finds himself in a fierce, blazing struggle on this October 1977 Marvel cover, where a crackling, flame-wreathed villain identified as Zzzax grips him with what the cover copy calls "nuclear fire" hot enough to melt even steel. Gil Kane's pencils and Pablo Marcos's inks capture the raw intensity of the confrontation brilliantly, with Cage's fists up and Zzzax's energy erupting in scorching bursts all around them. With a story titled "Hot Time In the Old Town Tonight!" and a cover threat promising holocaust shall follow, this issue delivers exactly the kind of larger-than-life action that made Power Man one of Marvel's most compelling street-level titles of the era.