Journey into Mystery #29

This December 1955 Atlas anthology pulls readers straight into dread with Joe Maneely's cover: a terrified man in a suit backs away through a window frame, dwarfed by the looming, shadowy silhouette of a massive, hatted intruder filling the room behind him. The tilted perspective and stark contrast between the pale, panicked figure and that ominous dark shape make the scene genuinely unsettling in the best mid-'50s horror-anthology tradition. Inside, Manny Stallman contributes "Three Frightened People" among the issue's promised all-new mysteries — a fine December read for anyone with a taste for the eerie.