Beware the Creeper #2

DC's wildest hero leaps center stage in Beware the Creeper #2 (1968), as the yellow-clad, red-maned Creeper bursts outward against a deeply unsettling backdrop of multiple glowering, green-eyed faces — the many disguises of the villain Proteus looming in every corner of the composition. Steve Ditko's cover work is in full, inventive form here, using a fractured collage of threatening visages to surround the Creeper with a genuinely eerie sense of shifting, unknowable menace. For fans of 1968 DC and Ditko's distinctively kinetic style, this issue's visual promise alone makes it a compelling entry in the series.