Gwandanaland Comics #874

Gwandanaland Comics #874 collects the seventh volume of the complete Unusual Tales run, gathering more of Charlton's beloved anthology series into one handsome 2018 edition. The reproduced cover art — penciled and inked by Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio — is a wonderfully eerie image: a giant close-up face peers out with an unsettling extra eye in its forehead, while two tiny figures (a man in pursuit and a woman in distress) are dwarfed on the man's enormous hand, teasing "The Astonishing Tale of The Professor's Little World." If you're working through all ten volumes of this 49-issue series, this one continues to showcase why Charlton's mid-century sci-fi and mystery stories still captivate readers today.