Journey into Mystery #39

This October 1956 Atlas Comics anthology pulls readers straight into the uncanny with Bill Everett's gripping cover — a terrified man in a suit clutches a massive, gnarled dark form as two wide-eyed onlookers cower in the shadows behind him, while a blazing cityscape glows ominously in the background below. The tagline promises that deep underground he discovered "The Forbidden Room!," and that subterranean dread radiates from every detail of Everett's composition. Inside, Paul Reinman contributes to a lineup of all-new mystery tales that made Journey into Mystery one of the decade's most compelling anthology titles.