The Power of SHAZAM! #39

Part two of "The Monster Society of Evil" arrives with a cover that does the talking before you even open the book — a bulletin board plastered with WANTED posters for Mr. Atom, Mister Mind ("World's Wickedest Worm"), and Sinclair Batson, while a gauntleted fist crumples one of the notices front and center. A disfigured, two-toned face lurks in the lower corner, adding an unsettling undercurrent to the assembly of villains on display. Jerry Ordway's cover art captures exactly the kind of pulpy, high-stakes atmosphere that made this mid-1990s run such a satisfying revival of the Big Red Cheese's world.