The Atom #26

The cover of The Atom #26 (September 1966) lays out the odds in vivid, unsettling terms: a grinning villain in a green mesh mask thrusts an enormous fist toward the reader while the tiny, blue-suited Atom scrambles to dodge a needle-like weapon wielded by a menacing orange bug-eyed insect creature above him — all under the taunt that "The Bug-Eyed Bandit was armed with more weapons than The Atom could shake a fist at!" Gil Kane's pencils and inks deliver a wonderfully dynamic sense of scale, making the Atom's predicament feel genuinely precarious against such outlandishly oversized opposition. As a bonus, the issue promises a double-page pin-up of the Atom inside — a nice extra treat for fans of Ray Palmer's pint-sized hero.