Astonishing #52

A man teeters on the edge of a massive, floating rock slab high above a sprawling cityscape far below — it's a genuinely unsettling image that captures the vertiginous dread Atlas Comics did so well in 1956. Carl Burgos's cover art sells the height and helplessness with real skill, the lone figure's outstretched arms conveying that stomach-dropping sense of impossible peril. Inside, Bernard Baily brings "The Man in the Sky!" to life in what promises to be one of those wonderfully strange tales that made Astonishing a reliable source of the unexpected.