The Avengers #184

The Absorbing Man — Crusher Creel — dominates this George Pérez and Terry Austin cover, a massive, snarling figure wielding his signature ball and chain across what appears to be a waterfront deck, with the assembled Avengers — including Ms. Marvel, Vision, Iron Man, and the Beast — scattered around him in various states of combat. The cover copy pointedly asks whether Ms. Marvel has joined Earth's Mightiest Heroes only to fall before Creel, lending the scene an immediate sense of stakes and tension. "Death on the Hudson!" promises a full-throttle team brawl, and this 1979 Marvel entry delivers one of the more viscerally compelling Avengers covers of its era.