Adventure Comics #425

Adventure Comics #425 (January 1972) promises something genuinely strange and thrilling with its MW Kaluta cover, which sets a mountain climber — orange-jacketed, dangling from a rope, pistol firing — against a swooping winged creature and a charging winged horse (Pegasus) emerging from the open sky. The tension between the desperate, very human figure and these mythological beasts gives the image a raw, almost surreal energy that feels right at home with the story title "The Wings of Jealous Gods." Interior work by writer Robert Kanigher and artist/inker Alex Niño promises that the pages inside match the cover's wild ambition.