House of Mystery #120

From DC's long-running anthology series comes House of Mystery #120 (1962), featuring the wild cover story "The Cat-Man of Kanga Peak!" — and the cover delivers exactly what that title promises. Dick Dillin and Sheldon Moldoff render a towering, roaring lion-creature bristling with spears as three hunters close in, while one man throws his arms up crying out to stop the attack, claiming responsibility for the beast's dangerous transformation. It's a tense, sympathetic monster scene that captures everything compelling about early-'60s DC horror-adventure comics, and the interior also brings the talents of Alex Toth to the page.