Spider-Woman #4

Dave Cockrum and Bob Wiacek deliver a genuinely gripping cover for this 1978 Marvel title, showing Spider-Woman bound with rope and struggling on the ground while the menacing, horned Hangman looms over her wielding more rope — with the defeated Brother Grimm visible in the foreground and flames erupting all around. The cover copy puts it plainly: caught between two super-villains, the question is whether she can survive. With Marv Wolfman scripting and Carmine Infantino on interior art, this fourth issue of the series promises the kind of high-stakes tension that made late-'70s Marvel so compelling.