Astonishing #25

Atlas Comics' pre-Code horror anthology delivers four tales of dread in this June 1953 issue, headlined by "I Married a Zombie!" Cover artist Russ Heath renders the scene with unsettling energy: a massive, rotting green zombie lurches forward with clawed hands outstretched while a terrified blonde woman recoils in horror against a darkened, cave-like backdrop — a "dead body" notation even visible at the bottom of the image. Additional stories promised inside — "Don't Open the Door!," "Midnight Massacre!," and "Tommy's Timid Wife" — suggest the anthology lives up to its bold guarantee of "the most astonishing tales you've ever read.