Blue Beetle #54

Charlton's Blue Beetle faces a genuinely unsettling threat in this 1966 issue, as the cover by Bill Fraccio and Tony Tallarico sets our blue-suited hero lunging toward an enormous, glowing green eye — the Eye of Horus, promised to have come from ancient Egypt to enslave the world. Below him, a group of imperiled figures scramble amid rushing water and crumbling stone ruins, giving the scene real urgency. Joe Gill's script and Fraccio's interior art back up a cover that earns its dramatic tagline.