Look at this gorgeous cover, darlings! The color, the backgrounds, the costumes. This was the Silver Age Of Comics which I grew up with, and, of course, thought would remain forever. I had no idea comics would become so vulgar and highly sexualized.
I don't know why Cosmic Boy's costume on this cover is not pink. Maybe it was to give him a sense of shading. Or maybe it was to butch him up, so he would not feel gay, like Element Lad, whose costume was even pinker. When DC chose a legionnaire to be gay, it was Element Lad, which did not surprise me. He was, perhaps, the inevitable choice.
Now, these comics go for a fortune. How I wish I had kept my comics collection.
It was a time when art was art!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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