Gwandanaland Comics #619

Space exploration anxiety gets a visceral showcase in this Gwandanaland Comics collection reprinting the complete Race for the Moon series. The cover — penciled by Jack Kirby and Joe Simon and inked by Marvin Stein — captures a suited astronaut tumbling helplessly through the void, a USAF rocket craft drifting just out of reach, with Earth hanging in the distant black and the Moon's cratered surface below, all underscored by the breathless tagline "Man Overboard! Adrift in Space a Million Miles Above the Earth!" Kirby and Simon's dynamic draftsmanship makes the cold terror of deep space feel immediate, making this 2017 collection a genuinely rewarding way to experience their mid-century sci-fi collaboration in one volume.