Mystery in Space #104

DC's "bizarre hero" Ultra the Multi-Alien takes center stage on this striking 1965 cover by Lee Elias, his patchwork alien body crackling with energy as green-suited soldiers are sent flying by a massive explosion at his feet. A sinister red-masked villain looms in an inset circle, boasting he'll turn Ultra's own powers against him — a menace that sets the stage for "The Plutonian Who Plundered Planets." It's a wonderfully offbeat slice of mid-sixties DC science fiction, rendered with Elias's sharp, energetic linework.