BRONZE AGE BONANZA: The temps get cooler but the comics stay hot! — Welcome to BRONZE AGE BONANZA — our monthly series that looks at the greatest covers of the Bronze Age — exactly 50 years later. For more info on this feature, click here. — Hey, I have no clever patter for you this month, so let’s just get right to THE TOP 13 COVERS OF SEPTEMBER 1970 — RANKED: (And don’t forget: These entries are based on sale dates and not official publication dates.) — 13. Archie’s Girls Betty and Veronica #179, Archie. Yeah, laugh it up, Mrs. Cooper. In 50 years, your daughter’s world will become a hellscape of wildfires, hurricanes and melting ice caps. — 12. UFO Flying Saucers #2, Gold Key. I guess the editors weren’t taking any chances by putting the words “UFO” and “Flying Saucers” on the cover. I also love that these are really rudimentary, old school flying saucers. And, hey, is it just me or should George Wilson have been a much bigger deal? Damn, I love his work. — 11. Weird #23, Eerie Publications. There’s so much to say here, I’m actually speechless. I think I could do a TOP 13 UNSETTLING THINGS ABOUT THIS COVER but who’s got the time? No. 1 would be the decapitated dude vampire’s beard. — 10. Beneath the Planet of the Apes #1, Gold Key. I think I have to get myself a copy of this. I just have to know how goody-goody Gold Key handled a story where everyone dies in the end and the Earth is annihilated. Plus: APE PROTEST POSTER! — 9. Adventure Comics #399, DC. Like a lot of early Bronze Age covers, this is provocative and unsettling with notes of camp creeping around the edges. The story inside’s pretty grim, though. But at least Supergirl looks fashionably fab! — 8. Captain America #132, Marvel. Bucky — alive in 1970?! M.O.D.O.K. appearing to pull the strings?! Marie Severin pencils?! Well, alright! — 7. The Phantom Stranger #10, DC. Neal Adams was a machine who was so prolific he couldn’t help but repeat themes and concepts, in this case riffing on a classic gothic horror trope. But got-damn, he did it better than anyone else. Prime Adams textural trickery. — 6. The Avengers #82, Marvel. I’m a sucker for an...