The Cat #4

The final issue of Marvel's 1973 solo series for The Cat goes out with a charge — literally — as the cover by John Romita (inked by Tony Mortellaro) throws our yellow-costumed heroine claws-first into a confrontation with the massive, horn-headed Man-Bull, who boasts of bringing mankind to its knees while a stampeding herd thunders behind him and a terrified blonde woman scrambles to escape underfoot. The Cat leaps into the fray with fierce determination, firing back "Not if the Cat can help it, Gruesome!" in one of the era's most vividly kinetic cover compositions. Writer Linda Fite and artist Werner Roth close out the run with a story — "Stampede!" — that promises exactly the high-stakes action this bold, ahead-of-its-time series delivered throughout.