Black Cat Comics #58

This September 1956 issue of Black Cat Mystic serves up a genuinely unsettling domestic mystery, with cover art by Jack Kirby showing two bewildered adults watching a boy and girl perched on a bed, apparently engrossed with a glowing, spectral old man — while a black cat lurks nearby in the shadows. The cover caption asks "Whom are the children talking to?" as one adult confesses he can't see anybody, perfectly setting the eerie tone of "Read to Us, Mr. Zimmer." Kirby's warm-yet-ghostly color scheme and expressive figures make this ten-cent spine-tingler a fine example of mid-1950s Harvey Comics at their atmospheric best.