Shazam! #29

Captain Marvel takes a thunderous punch to the chest from Ibac on this June 1977 cover, while in the background a sinister Prince Lucifer and a small, nervous figure watch and boast about their scheme to destroy "the Big Red Cheese" and rule the universe. Kurt Schaffenberger's clean, energetic linework captures both the raw power of the clash and the gleeful villainy of the observers perfectly. With a story pairing Ibac against the wonderfully named Aunt Minerva, written by E. Nelson Bridwell, this issue delivers the kind of colorful, Saturday-morning adventure that made Shazam! a genuine delight of the era.