Spider-Woman #8

The tagline says it all — "To know her is to fear her!" — and this 1978 Marvel issue backs it up with a cover by Carmine Infantino and Steve Leialoha that crackles with dread: Spider-Woman, bound in heavy chains, is carried helplessly through the air by a fur-clad, seemingly unstoppable adversary, with a field of deadly spikes looming below. The cover's dynamic composition and the villain's terrifying title — "The Man Who Couldn't Die!" — make it immediately clear that Jessica Drew is facing one of her most desperate situations yet. Marv Wolfman and Carmine Infantino deliver a late-'70s Marvel package that feels urgent and genuinely suspenseful.