Adventures into Terror #20

From Atlas Comics' mid-1950s horror anthology run comes this genuinely unsettling June 1953 issue, featuring a cover by Joe Maneely that commands attention: a massive, fanged idol called Lakoonda looms over a terrified man, twin beams of yellow light blazing from its eyes and incinerating whatever they touch. The left column teases three short chilling tales — "Proof Positive!," "The Dead Duke," and "Tommy Has a Teddy Bear!" — while a crowned skull and a wide-eyed child clutching a stuffed animal hint at the creepy variety waiting inside. A fine example of Atlas horror at its atmospheric best, priced at just a dime on newsstands that summer.