The Defenders #84

The cover by Rich Buckler and Al Milgrom says it all with just two words — "Battle Royal!" — as a massive Hulk squares off against both the Black Panther and a bare-chested Namor the Sub-Mariner amid a storm of flying debris. It's a thrilling hero-versus-hero clash rendered with real kinetic force, the kind of cover that made Marvel's 1980 newsstand rack impossible to walk past. With Ed Hannigan writing and Don Perlin on interior art, this issue of Marvel's "non-team" delivers exactly the unpredictable, hard-hitting energy the Defenders always promised.