Big Town #48

A tense confrontation anchors this December 1957 DC mystery, as a stern man in a brown suit holds a lit lighter toward the blue-gray hand of a wide-eyed figure in a space helmet — the "Moon Man" of the cover's featured story — while a second suspicious man lurks watchfully in the background. The speech balloons crackle with intrigue: someone's identity is about to be put to the test, and a hidden truth hangs in the balance. Cover pencils by Gil Kane and inks by Joe Giella give the scene a sharp, charged energy that makes this ten-cent issue hard to put down.