House of Mystery #109

From DC's House of Mystery comes this April 1961 ten-cent chiller featuring the story "Track of the Invisible Beast." The cover by Dick Dillin and Sheldon Moldoff presents a genuinely unnerving scene: a towering creature with a vulture's red head and a leopard-spotted body looms over a man in a suit who holds two smaller hybrid animal figures, while a police officer gestures urgently behind him — a speech balloon warning that assembling those pieces will create yet another creature, leaving them with two menaces. It's a wonderfully strange slice of early-'60s sci-fi horror that captures everything memorable about DC's anthology mystery titles of the era.