House of Mystery #133

From DC's long-running anthology series comes House of Mystery #133 (1963), its cover by Dick Dillin and Sheldon Moldoff delivering a genuinely unsettling ocean tableau: a massive yellow-green tentacled sea creature rears up from churning waters, its coiling limbs threatening to drag down a small motorboat and the figures scrambling aboard it, while a red-haired woman stands defiantly atop the monster's enormous body — all tied to the tantalizing cover blurb "The Captive Queen of Beast Island!" One panicked figure in the boat cries out, "That woman sent this creature at us — we're doomed!", perfectly capturing the breathless dread that made these Silver Age mystery anthologies so irresistible. A fine snapshot of DC's early-'60s taste for creature-feature chills and cliffhanger cover drama.