which more than one reader pointed out stole directly from Beneath the Planet of the Apes, with its warhead-worshiping simians.
By the way, the wrecked statue of liberty showed up again in this comic
and on the cover of this macho thriller; note the contrast between old and new models of femininity.
In the 1974 series, Doomsday Squad, the superheroes, far from being able to prevent the war, emerge only after the holocaust has taken place, by accident, according to the absurd illogic of modern warfare. This series was reissued in the eighties, when the theme of the hero roaming the ruined earth had become firmly established as a convention as stereotyped in its characteristics as the western.
The Ex-Mutants was a series about highly-attractive heroes and heroines who are bred to normality in a world filled with pathetic and dangerous mutants.
Occasionally the series tried to treat the threat of nuclear war seriously, as in this story in which another world, like their Earth, plunges over the nuclear brink.