Kamandi, the Last Boy on Earth #48

Kamandi, the blond-haired last boy on Earth, is locked in a desperate struggle on this January 1977 cover — wait, this is the 1976 DC series at its pulse-pounding best — as a massive, coiling serpent named Sacker wraps its crushing body around him while he strains to hold back its snapping, fang-filled jaws. The cover copy promises "the most unexpected betrayal of all forces" driving Kamandi into this terrifying confrontation, setting up Denny O'Neil's story with art by Dick Ayers and inks by Alfredo Alcala. Ernie Chan and Alfredo Alcala's cover work captures every ounce of the boy's raw determination against an overwhelmingly monstrous threat in the ruins of a post-disaster Earth.