The Invaders #19

The cover says it all — Captain America, the Human Torch, Namor the Sub-Mariner, and the Scarlet Scarab are shown trapped behind prison bars while a uniformed Adolf Hitler gestures triumphantly alongside Nazi soldiers, proclaiming that the Invaders dared defy the Third Reich and must die for it. It's a genuinely gripping 1977 image, brought to life by the cover team of Gil Kane, John Romita, and inker Joe Sinnott, that captures the high-stakes tension of Marvel's premier World War II super-team at their most desperate. Roy Thomas, Frank Robbins, and the rest of the interior crew deliver "War Comes to the Wilhelmstrasse," promising the kind of pulse-quickening wartime adventure that made The Invaders one of the most distinctive superhero titles of its era.