Tarzan #8

Marvel's 1978 adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs' jungle lord reaches issue #8, and John Buscema and Alfredo Alcala deliver a cover that crackles with raw tension: a muscular Tarzan charges forward between a snarling pack of great apes and a line of rifle-wielding Arab Raiders whose guns are leveled straight at him. The cover copy says it all — "Apes vs. Arab Raiders, with Tarzan caught between them in a duel to the death!" — and a speech bubble from Tarzan himself dares his enemies to fire, making the stakes electrifyingly clear. Subtitled "The Battle for the Jewels of Opar," this issue promises the kind of pulp adventure that made Burroughs' creation endure for generations.