House of Mystery #127

This 1962 DC anthology issue promises eerie sci-fi thrills with a cover by Mort Meskin and George Roussos that drops a lone human figure smack in the middle of a cosmic card game — two enormous alien hands hold playing cards while a speech bubble declares "I BET ONE EARTHLING!" A crowd of bizarre alien spectators looks on as the hapless Earthling stands on what appears to be a card table, completely at the mercy of these galactic gamblers. Titled "The Cosmic Game of Doom!" right on the cover, this issue of House of Mystery delivers exactly the kind of imaginative, wide-eyed science fiction strangeness that made early '60s DC anthologies so much fun.