Shazam! #20

Shazam! #20 from 1975 throws the World's Mightiest Family headlong into a gauntlet of wild threats, as Kurt Schaffenberger's cover shows Captain Marvel and Mary Marvel flying fists-first into a fire-breathing crocodile creature and a menacing robot, while a pair of hulking, yellow-skinned strongmen loom in the foreground. The tagline — "Can the World's Mightiest Family defeat the most dangerous menaces in the universe?" — sets the stakes with cheerful urgency, perfectly capturing DC's mid-'70s all-ages adventure spirit. Elliot S! Maggin's story, "The Strange and Terrible Disappearance of Maxwell Zodiac!," promises the kind of colorful, imaginative fun that made this Saturday TV tie-in series a treat for younger readers of the era.