Challengers of the Unknown #77

DC's long-running sci-fi anthology delivers a gripping January 1970 cover by Jack Kirby (inked by Roz Kirby) that pulls you straight into the chaos: the purple-clad Challengers are flung across a splintering vessel as a massive, coiling creature — released, according to a desperate caption, from one of those mysterious magic bottles — wraps its enormous tentacles around them. The featured story, "The Menace of the Ancient Vials!", promises exactly the kind of high-stakes, otherworldly danger that has kept this team perpetually living on borrowed time.