Kamandi, the Last Boy on Earth #49

Kamandi — the last boy on Earth — faces a terrifying ordeal on the cover of this 1977 DC issue, as the young blond hero is engulfed by a swarming mass of giant praying mantises, arms outstretched in desperate struggle against the swarm. The cover copy lays down the challenge directly: stop the marauding mantis swarm, because it's only the first test of a "Trial by Fear!" — a genuinely unsettling premise rendered with striking intensity by cover artist Ernie Chua. With Elliot S! Maggin scripting and Dick Ayers on interior art, issue #49 promises the kind of wild post-apocalyptic adventure that made this series such a singular corner of Bronze Age comics.