Journey into Unknown Worlds #9

Atlas Comics' Journey into Unknown Worlds #9 (1952) poses an unsettling question right on its cover: "Do You Dare to Meet… The People Who Couldn't Exist?" Cover pencils by Carl Burgos and inks by Christopher Rule deliver a genuinely creepy scene — a pale, shrouded figure with writhing tentacles for hair looms over a staircase while two men scramble back in alarm, with a prone body visible below. Four tales are teased inside, including "Don't Kill Me Twice!," "The Man from Space!," and "The Four Walls!," making this a generous anthology of early-'50s sci-fi and horror strangeness at a dime a copy.