Astonishing #61

This May 1957 Atlas anthology delivers "All Brand-New Astonishing Tales," anchored by the eerie promise of "Midnight in the Wax Museum!" — a title that raises the unsettling question right on the cover: what would it bring to Warren Kenyon? Bill Everett's cover art sets a wonderfully creepy scene inside the museum itself, where a terrified man in a brown coat stumbles backward as a towering, red-hooded figure looms on a platform behind him, with a top-hatted Victorian wax figure and several onlookers frozen in the shadows nearby. For fans of 1950s mystery and horror anthology comics, this ten-cent issue captures that delicious sense of dread that made Atlas titles such a reliable thrill.