Metal Men #14

The Metal Men face one of their strangest predicaments yet on this July 1965 cover by Ross Andru and Mike Esposito — the team's robotic bodies are stumbling around a city without their heads, which lie scattered on the ground while the towering chemical giant Chemo looms menacingly behind them. It's a genuinely unsettling and inventive image, with the headless metal figures lurching in desperation as a speech bubble reminds us just how dire the stakes are. Robert Kanigher's "The Headless Robots!" promises the kind of wildly imaginative sci-fi peril that made this series such a distinctive corner of the DC universe in the mid-'60s.