Captain Atom #78

Charlton's Captain Atom relaunches with gusto in this December 1965 issue, heralded right on the cover as "The New Adventures of Captain Atom." Steve Ditko's cover captures the yellow-suited hero bursting forward in a blaze of atomic energy, fending off a pair of menacing alien figures in purple while a soldier scrambles nearby — all as a villain's speech bubble ominously declares, "Stop him and the Earth is ours!" With a featured story titled "The Gremlins From Planet Blue" and a creative team of Joe Gill and Steve Ditko, this issue promises the kind of sci-fi superhero excitement that made Charlton's line a genuinely fun corner of 1960s comics.