Men's Adventures #23

This September 1953 Atlas anthology from the "Men's Weird Adventures" banner delivers a wonderfully unsettling cover by Bill Everett, depicting a desperate, bearded man in an orange shirt shown in a sequence of mounting panic — clutching a telephone while glowing yellow windows loom behind him — until a final panel captures his terrified face as he shouts "It's too late!!!!" into the receiver. The bold circle on the cover promises "the strangest men's adventures ever told," teasing tales including "The Wrong Body!," "Nothing Is Left Alive!," and "The Bones!" among other thrillers. It's a sharp, dread-soaked package that showcases exactly the kind of eerie suspense Atlas did so well in the early fifties.