House of Secrets #50

From DC's long-running mystery anthology comes House of Secrets #50, featuring Mark Merlin in "The Last Survivors of Planet Earth!" The cover — penciled by Dick Dillin and inked by Sheldon Moldoff — pulls you right into the tension: a cloaked alien figure looms in the foreground, while two startled humans stand before a monitor screen showing Earth in apparent destruction, one of them exclaiming that they may be the only humans these aliens have kept alive. It's a wonderfully unsettling slice of early-1960s sci-fi dread, delivered with the crisp, imaginative energy that made DC's 10-cent anthologies such a reliable treat.