The Human Fly #14

Marvel's real-life daredevil superhero soars above a dizzying city skyline on this October 1978 cover, with the red-suited Human Fly plunging headlong over Fifth Avenue while two imperiled figures — a blonde woman and a redhead — look on anxiously from inside a gondola suspended beneath a U.S. Navy blimp. Cover pencils by Bob Lubbers and inks by Bob McLeod give the scene a terrific sense of vertiginous height, perfectly setting up the story promise of "Death Rides the Big Balloons!" Inside, Bill Mantlo scripts with art by Frank Robbins and inks by Steve Leialoha — a solid creative team delivering the kind of high-flying adventure that made this series a genuinely fun corner of the late-'70s Marvel universe.