The Avengers #192

Against a backdrop of Pittsburgh's industrial smokestacks, a massive, glowing spotted creature tears through a crowd of hard-hat workers while two Avengers — one in red launching a flying kick, another in a red-and-yellow costume — fight back with everything they've got. The cover, penciled by George Pérez and inked by Joe Sinnott, crackles with kinetic energy and delivers on the promise of "Peril in Pittsburgh" in vivid 1980 Marvel style. "Steel City Nightmare!" looks to be exactly that, and this issue of Earth's Mightiest Heroes makes a compelling case for why the Avengers belong on every comics reader's pull list.