Judomaster #89

Charlton's Judomaster squares off against the hulking Mountain Storm on this June 1966 cover, with the costumed hero in his distinctive yellow-and-red suit lunging fearlessly at a massive bare-chested opponent amid coils of barbed wire. Frank McLaughlin's artwork — inked here with Dick Giordano — sells the intensity of what the cover boldly calls "the greatest hand-to-hand battle…ever," and the promise of a step-by-step bonus feature on Judomaster's real-world defensive techniques makes this a genuinely satisfying package for action fans. At just 12 cents, it's a tight, exciting snapshot of Charlton's martial-arts corner of 1966 superhero comics.