Here's an interesting panel from THE FLASH # 202 (DC Comics, Cover Date: December, 1970), which shows not only the degree to which American society had changed at the time...
...But how much these COMICS themselves had changed since the "anything goes" imagination-burst of the Silver Age!
The cover of THE FLASH # 202, in contrast...
Certainly more dramatic, with some late '60s - mid '70s comic-book relevance added - but straight forward, and completely eschewing the unpleasant grotesqueries of today's comics!
But, amid the greater era-reflecting visuals and relevance, we're here to "draw" (Get it? Because it's art?) some attention to a certain someone lurking in the background!
Someone who is, in no way, connected to our story, but is there nonetheless as an apparent observer of the unusual culture that we had become.
Look! Between the caption box and the hippie's head...
IT'S THE "MIRROR-MIRROR UNIVERSE" VERSION OF STAR TREK'S MR. SPOCK!
GO ON... TELL ME IT'S NOT!
I think I might have discovered the first STAR TREK comic book crossover!
A proud tradition that would someday lead us to places like THIS!
And to think, it all started with this humble, hippie-like beginning!
Like WOW, man!
