Mystery in Space #67

This May 1961 DC gem puts Adam Strange front and center in a breathtaking aerial showdown, as the jet-pack-equipped hero fires his ray gun at an enormous firefly bearing down on him — its segmented, yellow-and-black body and broad wings filling the sky while flames rage across the landscape below. Carmine Infantino and Joe Giella deliver a cover that perfectly captures the wide-eyed wonder of early-'60s science fiction, with a gleaming alien cityscape visible in the background hinting at the stakes of the battle. Gardner Fox's script and Sid Greene's interior art promise the kind of inventive, planet-hopping adventure that made Mystery in Space one of the era's most imaginative titles.