Super-Villain Team-Up #1

Marvel's audacious 1975 premise — villains as the stars — launches in style with this first issue, where the massive armored visage of Doctor Doom looms over an underwater brawl, a speech bubble making clear his patience with Namor the Sub-Mariner has run out. Below Doom's imposing mask, Namor fights off Attuma and the scaly Tiger Shark amid churning bubbles, with Dr. Dorcas also named in the cover's bold banner promising "Slayers from the Sea!" Ron Wilson's pencils and Frank Giacoia's inks give the whole confrontation a forceful, kinetic energy that sets an appropriately tense tone for a series bold enough to put its antagonists front and center.