Motion Picture Comics #110

Fawcett's Motion Picture Comics brings George Pal's Paramount sci-fi spectacle When Worlds Collide to the comics page in this 1952 adaptation, with interior art by George Evans and Al Williamson bringing Sydney Boehm's screenplay — and the source novels by Edwin Balmer and Philip Wylie — to vivid life. The cover sets the stakes perfectly: a sleek rocket ship sits on its launch ramp amid towering flames, while a young couple embraces in a photo inset above, their hopeful expressions contrasting with the apocalyptic inferno below. It's a beautifully composed snapshot of humanity's last gamble against extinction, and at a dime it was an extraordinary deal for any science fiction fan in 1952.