Green Lantern #5

High above a bustling city, Hal Jordan plunges helplessly toward the streets below — his power ring visibly tumbling away and sparking on a rooftop far beneath him — as a caption reveals that a mysterious force has yanked it from his finger. Gil Kane and Joe Giella deliver a genuinely vertiginous cover for this 1961 issue, with the aerial perspective and colorful cityscape making the hero's predicament feel viscerally urgent. Promising a "sensational three-part novel" in "The Power Ring That Vanished!," this one wastes no time telegraphing that Green Lantern faces a challenge that cuts right to the heart of everything that makes him powerful.