Captain Action #2

DC's January 1968 adventure series roars into its second issue as Captain Action and a companion race their sleek, missile-equipped futuristic vehicle straight toward the reader — while a massive, green-tinged giant bearing a weapon bears down on them from above against a backdrop of smoke and explosions. Gil Kane's cover pencils and inks crackle with kinetic energy, perfectly matching the story's own tagline, "The Battle Begins…" With Jim Shooter writing and the artistic team of Wallace Wood and Joe Letterese bringing the interior pages to life, this early entry in the series delivers the kind of high-stakes excitement that made DC's late-'60s lineup so compelling.