Metamorpho #6

Paris bring a delightfully absurd Silver Age spectacle to this 1966 DC issue, as a stunned Parisian onlooker cries "Sacré bleu — M'sieu Metamorpho… he is stealing ze Eiffel Tower!" while the Element Man himself, his body erupting in fiery elemental energy, appears to do exactly that amid billowing clouds of smoke and a yellow locomotive bearing his name. The circular inset showcases Metamorpho's striking, multi-hued transformed form in all its bizarre glory, and the cover's teasing tagline — "See what else he collects… inside" — makes it hard not to flip the page immediately. Bob Haney, Joe Orlando, and Charles Paris deliver the kind of cheerful, anything-goes energy that makes mid-sixties DC comics such a pleasure to revisit.