The Flash #330

Even the Fastest Man Alive can be caught off guard — and this February 1984 cover by Carmine Infantino and Murphy Anderson makes that uncomfortably clear, with a massive gorilla hoisting a limp, defeated Flash overhead while a smirking young man looks on with crossed arms and the chilling boast, "We did it, my son! Now he's ours!" The story title "Beware the Land of Grodd" sets the stakes perfectly for what this arresting image already implies. With Cary Bates and Joey Cavalieri on scripting duties and Carmine Infantino handling interior art, this issue looks like a genuinely tense chapter for Barry Allen.