Blackhawk #199

This August 1964 issue of New Blackhawk promises two thrilling novelettes, and the cover — penciled by Dick Dillin and inked by Sheldon Moldoff — wastes no time setting up something wonderfully strange. Viewed through a magnifying lens, tiny figures in red and green uniforms battle enormous mummy-wrapped insects, while speech bubbles cry out "We've been reduced in size… and are under attack by weird mummy insects!" A startled onlooker peers down at the scene from above, making the scale contrast both eerie and genuinely fun. If shrunken heroes fighting bandage-swathed giant bugs sounds like your kind of Silver Age adventure, Blackhawk #199 delivers that premise with all the straight-faced enthusiasm DC could muster in 1964.