House of Mystery #140

From DC's long-running anthology series comes this January 1964 issue, with a cover by Dick Dillin and Sheldon Moldoff that grabs you immediately — a massive purple alien fist looms over a helpless man pinned against a surface, the word balloon crying out that a giant Earthman has betrayed him by promising to let the alien win this deadly grappling match. The sense of scale and desperation is genuinely unsettling, capturing exactly the kind of pulpy, imaginative dread that made House of Mystery such a compelling fixture on 1964 spinner racks. Inside, George Roussos brings his talents to "The Druidic Doom," promising more of the strange and uncanny that this title delivered month after month.