House of Mystery #73

DC's long-running anthology series delivers another unsettling scenario in this 1958 issue, featuring "The Human Icicle" — a man encased in a block of ice, visible on the cover as a police officer raises a tool to chip him free while a woman in a yellow dress and onlookers react with alarm. The frozen man's own speech balloon warns them not to expose him to warm weather, lending the scene an eerie, paradoxical urgency that perfectly captures the strange-but-true flavor House of Mystery did so well. Joe Maneely's cover art frames the dilemma with clean, expressive figures that draw you right into the ten-cent mystery waiting inside.