My Greatest Adventure #48

Few covers from 1960 capture the pathos of science-fiction quite like this one, where a massive blue alien creature clings to a bridge while military jets strafe it with energy blasts and a steamship moves through the harbor below. What makes it genuinely affecting is the creature's desperate speech bubble — "No, no! I don't want to harm you! I want to be one of you!" — turning what could have been a straightforward monster cover into something unexpectedly sympathetic. Cover pencils by Dick Dillin and inks by Sheldon Moldoff give the scene real dramatic weight, and "I Was Marooned on Earth!" promises the kind of imaginative, twist-driven storytelling that made DC's anthology titles so compelling in this era.