Blackhawk #152

This September 1960 DC Comics issue plunges the Blackhawk team into wild sci-fi territory with "Noah's Ark from Space!" — and the cover by Dick Dillin and Sheldon Moldoff delivers an immediate jolt: a massive, eight-limbed Octi-Ape has broken free from a looming red spacecraft and has seized the hapless Chop-Chop, who flails helplessly in its grip while onlooking figures in blue caps watch in alarm. The cover caption says it all — "Great Scott! The eight-limbed Octi-Ape has escaped from the space ship and has grabbed Chop-Chop!" — making this one of those wonderfully over-the-top Silver Age premises that DC executed with such straight-faced enthusiasm.