The Atom #1

This landmark 1962 issue launches DC's Mighty Mite into his very own series with a cover — penciled by Gil Kane and inked by Murphy Anderson — that immediately establishes the scale-bending thrills the Atom does best. The tiny blue-and-red hero is shown struggling in the snapping jaws of an enormous Venus flytrap while a wild-eyed villain looms in the background, gloating that a plant capable of defeating the world's smallest super-hero will pave the way for his "plant-conquest of Earth." It's a wonderfully unsettling image that sets the tone perfectly for the featured story, "Master of the Plant World!