Kamandi, the Last Boy on Earth #28

Arms flung wide against a backdrop of fire and fallen soldiers, Kamandi pleads "Stop! Stop this massacre!" as a chaotic battlefield of uniformed combatants — some in red, some in blue — tears itself apart around him. Jack Kirby's cover pencils, inked by D. Bruce Berry, capture the post-apocalyptic teen hero at his most desperate, caught between warring factions while explosions and carnage rage on every side. With the cover headline invoking Tennyson's doomed cavalry charge — "Into the Valley of Death rode the six hundred… Bulldogs, dying like men!!" — this April 1975 issue promises a grand, tragic scale that Kirby was uniquely suited to deliver.