House of Mystery #113

From DC's long-running anthology series comes this 1961 installment, cover-penciled by Dick Dillin and inked by Sheldon Moldoff, featuring the spine-tingling headline "Prisoners of Beast Asteroid!" The cover plunges readers into a watery nightmare: two tiny human figures are caught between a massive pink octopus-like creature rising from the churning sea and a towering green bird-beast looming above, with a speech bubble warning that escape from the water-beast means facing whatever horrors await on land. It's a wonderfully tense slice of early-'60s DC mystery storytelling, priced at just a dime and brimming with the imaginative creature-feature energy that made House of Mystery such a beloved anthology of its era.