Skull the Slayer #3

Marvel's savage time-lost hero goes all-out in this January 1976 entry, as the cover — penciled by Ron Wilson and inked by Frank Giacoia — hurls Skull front and center, bare-fisted and snarling, smashing apart a menacing mechanical beast with jagged metal teeth while a terrified blonde woman scrambles clear and a red-clad companion is clutched in the machine's claw-like grip. The corner inset teases a prehistoric world of dinosaurs looming behind a lone warrior, and the cover copy promises "Mechanical Murder in the World of Dinosaurs!" alongside the tantalizing hook of being "Trapped in the Tower of Time!" — a wild collision of lost-world adventure and science-fiction dread that makes this issue hard to put down before you've even opened it.