Reporter's Notebook

As a rule, these covers really shouldn’t work. But I love how Gil Kane creates a 3D effect with them, having figures an objects break out of the box. It makes it feel like the action is literally popping off of the page. You don’t get that kind of energy on covers now with comic book covers. Artists who try to bring high action and energy to their covers usually end up making them cluttered and indecipherable. 

Oh, and I picked this cover because this story was in one of the first—if not the first—comics I bought in my life. It was an issue of Marvel Tales and it reprinted this issue. It’s an odd first Spider-Man comic, given that he teams up with Ka-zar and fights in the Savage Land.

(via Diversions of the Groovy Kind: The Grooviest Covers of All Time: Gil Kane: “Inside the Box”)