Mister Miracle #11

Mister Miracle #11 (December 1972) puts the "Super Escape Artist" to his most spectacular test yet, as the cover — penciled by Jack Kirby and inked by Mike Royer — shows Scott Free rocketing headlong in a cannon-launched capsule straight toward a blazing vat of fire, with a crowd of onlookers stretching across the open field below. The blurb asks whether Mister Miracle can survive "the death-defying leap into the vat of fire," and the sheer scale of the stunt, flames erupting dramatically against the sky, makes the stakes feel genuinely breathtaking. "The Greatest Show Off Earth!" promises exactly the kind of larger-than-life spectacle that made Kirby's New Gods era so thrilling.