House of Mystery #102

This September 1960 DC anthology delivers the kind of unsettling premise that made House of Mystery such a compelling ten-cent read. The cover by Dick Dillin and Sheldon Moldoff drops us into a genuinely tense scene: two uniformed officers are shoving a protesting man in a red shirt into a cage already occupied by a massive, purple-and-orange creature with a snarling face, as the man desperately insists he's human — only to be told his "Earth disguise" won't save him. With interior art by Ruben Moreira on "The Alien No-Man's-Land," this issue promises exactly the blend of science-fiction paranoia and creature-feature dread that defined early 1960s DC horror anthologies.