Blue Beetle #2

Charlton's Blue Beetle stands front and center on this September 1964 cover — blue-suited, masked, and flanked by a dark-haired woman — as jets streak overhead, a mammoth looms to the left, and an enormous saber-toothed tiger bares its fangs from the right. The cover tagline says it all: "The Mightiest Man Battles Reds from Today, and Monsters from Yesterday!" — promising a Cold War thriller with a prehistoric twist in "Hot War in the Arctic." Cover pencils by Bill Fraccio and inks by Vince Colletta give the scene a tense, dynamic energy that perfectly captures Charlton's adventurous spirit of the era.