Kamandi, the Last Boy on Earth #19

Jack Kirby and D. Bruce Berry set the scene with a kinetic Chicago street battle: blonde Kamandi ducks low across the hood of a speeding convertible as armed, green-clad gorillas close in from every direction, guns blazing amid a hail of laser fire. Human gangsters in fedoras share the car with him, making for one of the stranger alliances the post-apocalyptic DC universe had to offer in 1974. The cover's tagline promises something even more unsettling than mobsters lurking in the Windy City, and that tension crackles across every inch of Kirby's tightly packed composition.