From Beyond the Unknown #15

This March 1972 DC anthology delivers 52 big pages of science-fiction wonder, and Murphy Anderson's cover sets the tone perfectly — a bewildered everyman in a plaid suit opens his front door to find the entire Earth floating in the star-filled void just beyond his threshold, briefcase in hand as if he's simply stepped out for the morning commute. Five tales are teased on the cover, including Gardner Fox's "The World at My Doorstep!" alongside such tantalizing titles as "Menace of the Shrinking Bomb!," "The Invisible Dinosaur!," "Inter-Planetary Merry-Go-Round!," and "Captain Baboon's Space-War!" — a genuine grab-bag of cosmic imagination. At a quarter cover price, From Beyond the Unknown was serving up exactly the kind of wide-eyed speculative adventure that made early-'70s DC science fiction such a treat.