The Brave and the Bold #126

An underwater clash anchors this April 1976 team-up, as the cover — penciled and inked by Jim Aparo — plunges Batman and Aquaman into a churning battle against a squad of Nazi-insignia-bearing frogmen armed with spearguns and riding underwater sleds. Aquaman streaks through the water above while Batman grapples hand-to-hand with the menacing divers below, the whole scene pulsing with kinetic energy and Cold War-era tension. The teaser "What Lurks Below Buoy 13?" promises the kind of nautical intrigue that made The Brave and the Bold one of DC's most entertaining team-up series of the 1970s.