Shade, the Changing Man #8

Shade, the Changing Man faces desperate odds in issue #8, as the cover — rendered with Steve Ditko's kinetic energy — shows our hero tumbling helplessly in his distinctive orange-and-yellow M-Vest costume while a fleet of frog-like hovercrafts swarms overhead, their armored occupants closing in. The speech bubbles make the stakes plain: the traitors are trapped in the Presidential Palace, the group is completely surrounded, and Shade himself is declared helpless. It's a thrilling 1978 DC sci-fi adventure with Ditko's unmistakable dynamic linework on both story and cover, bringing Michael Fleisher's co-written "The Gambles!" to vivid, off-kilter life.