From Beyond the Unknown #23

Few comics from 1973 deliver a more delightfully surreal cover than this one: a massive, gun-wielding ape storms a library, clutching a copy of Treasure Island and demanding more books — Moby Dick and Robinson Crusoe — from a startled woman behind the counter, all while muttering about conquering the world through literature. Nick Cardy's cover art perfectly captures DC's "Stories to Stagger the Imagination" promise with that irresistible blend of menace and absurdity. Inside, three tales await — "Secret of the Man-Ape!," "World of Doomed Spacemen!," and "Language-Master of Space!" — making this a wonderfully dense package of science fiction and fantasy oddities.