The Flash #329

The cover by Carmine Infantino and Murphy Anderson sets up a genuinely unsettling scenario: a kneeling Flash faces a young, eerily smiling figure whose forehead blazes with a golden energy beam, while the massive, glowering visage of Gorilla Grodd looms over them both from behind. The cover copy dares the Scarlet Speedster to "stare into the eyes of Gorilla Grodd's secret weapon" — a taunt that makes this mysterious psychic-looking youth feel like a real threat. With Cary Bates scripting and Carmine Infantino on interiors, this January 1984 issue promises the kind of brainy, villainous scheming that makes Grodd one of the Flash's most compelling adversaries.