The Defenders #62

A cheerful, chaotic invitation awaits in this August 1978 Marvel gem — a suited, microphone-wielding showman announces to the world that anyone can be "a Defender for a Day," and the cover by John Romita Jr. and Bob Layton delivers on that promise spectacularly. Dominating the scene is a caped, hawk-helmeted figure surging forward, while a sprawling crowd of Marvel heroes — including the Hulk, Iron Man, the Falcon, Iron Fist, Power Man, and a winged Angel among others — swarms in from every direction in glorious, gloriously overcrowded fashion. With the cover itself promising "possibly the wildest Defenders saga ever" with tons of action, suspense, and laughs, Membership Madness! looks like exactly the kind of wonderfully unhinged superhero romp that made late-'70s Marvel so much fun.