Aquaman #51

This June 1970 issue of Aquaman dives straight into high-stakes drama with cover art by Nick Cardy, whose swirling, psychedelic underwater backdrop of writhing dark tendrils and vivid color makes the danger feel genuinely overwhelming. Aquaman — in his familiar orange-and-green costume — is bound by chains and desperately straining to grip the hand of a second figure below him, who is being dragged downward by those same coiling black forms, his anguished cry of "I can't hold… on to… you!" making the peril unmistakably urgent. Titled "The Big Pull," this issue promises exactly that — a struggle against forces threatening to tear apart the Sea King's grip on someone he's fighting hard to save.