Beware the Creeper #3

DC's wildest anti-hero is front and center on this October 1968 cover by Steve Ditko, with the Creeper — green-haired, yellow-skinned, and draped in his flowing red mane — lunging forward with a manic grin and outstretched claws as cascading "HA HA HA" lettering fills the air around him. Below him, a prone armored figure is pinned amid flames and torches while purple-robed figures close in from the sides, setting up the ominous promise of "The Isle of Fear." Ditko's kinetic linework gives the whole scene an anarchic energy that perfectly captures why the Creeper remains one of comics' most delightfully unnerving heroes.