Atomic Mouse #11

Our caped hero Atomic Mouse tangles with a yellow, wide-eyed octopus atop an open treasure chest in this cheerful 1985 Charlton adventure. Maurice Whitman's cover pencils and inks capture the scrappy little mouse mid-punch, sending the tentacled troublemaker reeling while jewels spill from the chest below — a perfect visual promise for the issue's story, "The Treasure Map." It's the kind of energetic, good-natured fun that made Charlton's all-ages humor titles a staple of mid-'80s spinner racks.