House of Mystery #129

This December 1962 DC anthology delivers a genuinely unsettling cover by Mort Meskin and George Roussos: a man stumbles through a city street with a blazing atomic nucleus where his head should be, crying out that he can't escape the giant atom destroying everything around him, while bystanders scramble in panic. The story inside, "The Hand-Made Catastrophes!," is brought to life by writer Dave Wood and artist/inker Howard Purcell, promising the kind of eerie, science-gone-wrong suspense that made House of Mystery such a reliable thrill at 12 cents an issue.