The Inferior Five #9

The New Inferior Five #9 (August 1968) delivers DC's self-deprecating super-team at their most charmingly hapless, with a cover by Win Mortimer and Tex Blaisdell that tells you everything you need to know: a massive, looming mummy has apparently fainted dead away at the sight of a composed blonde heroine in red, while her teammates look on in bafflement and one of their own lies sprawled on the floor. The speech bubble — "That's funny — he took one look at me… and FAINTED!" — perfectly captures the book's irreverent, comedic spirit. "Mummy's the Word!" promises the kind of accidental heroics and gentle absurdity that made this series a warmly funny corner of the late-'60s DC universe.