The New Gods #5

Jack Kirby and Mike Royer put Orion in a fierce mid-air clash with Slig — the scaly, green-skinned villain whose very touch means death — against a stormy sea backdrop in this November 1971 installment of DC's New Gods. The cover teases something lurking in those churning waters below, promising a mutate monster unleashed on the seas of Earth in the story "Spawn." With two super-beings locked in mortal combat and the outcome hanging in the balance, this is Kirby's cosmic mythology firing on all cylinders.