The Flash #135

From March 1963, this Silver Age DC issue presents a striking visual dilemma right on its cover: a crackling, lightning-wreathed Flash warns Kid Flash to keep his distance, as a strange bolt shooting from the Scarlet Speedster's lightning insignia appears to be transforming his sidekick's very uniform. The cover by Carmine Infantino and Murphy Anderson crackles with kinetic energy — a streak-blurred Kid Flash races toward his mentor while a ghostly image of the Flash appears behind him, the whole scene alive with jagged electricity and tension. With John Broome scripting and Infantino's clean, dynamic interior art, "Secret of the Three Super-Weapons!" promises the kind of imaginative, science-tinged storytelling that made this era of The Flash so compelling.