Kamandi, the Last Boy on Earth #13

The cover by Jack Kirby and Mike Royer throws you right into the chaos, with blond Kamandi hurling himself acrobatically through a crowd of armed, leopard-faced humanoid guards near an "Animal Compound — Do Not Enter" sign, while frightened humans are shoved and grabbed all around him. That tagline — "A day at the races like you've never seen before!" — perfectly captures the wild promise of "Hell at Hialeah!", a story that reimagines Florida's famous racetrack as something far more dangerous in Kamandi's post-apocalyptic world. DC's 1974 Bronze Age was producing some genuinely inventive science-fantasy, and this issue's cover energy alone makes it easy to see why Kamandi kept readers coming back.