Mister Miracle #14

Mister Miracle faces some truly unsettling opposition in this 1973 DC Comics issue, with the costumed Super Escape Artist surrounded on the cover by a pack of ghoulish, shrouded figures and a menacing armored villain looming in the background — all while his diminutive companion stands defiantly at his side. Jack Kirby's cover pencils (inked by Mike Royer) set an appropriately eerie tone, promising a story that lives up to its tagline: "To escape the House of Satan you must join the Quick or the Dead!" As an added lure, the cover teases the introduction of a new villainess — Madame Evil Eyes — billed as "the weirdest villainess ever seen in comics.