The Human Fly #13

Marvel's "wildest super-hero ever — because he's real!" takes on a snow-covered mountainside in this 1978 issue, as the Human Fly hurls himself through the air on skis while an explosion erupts nearby and a low-flying helicopter marked "WEST-TV" threads through the chaos below. The cover, penciled by Bob Lubbers and inked by Bob McLeod, crackles with kinetic energy — broken ski poles, billowing snow, and figures scattered across a treacherous alpine slope all suggesting the kind of breathless, high-altitude danger that defines this series. With a story titled "Slope of Death!" and the tagline "Chasm of Fear!" blazoned across the image, issue #13 promises exactly the sort of white-knuckle stunt spectacle that made the Human Fly one of Marvel's most distinctive 1978 adventures.