My Greatest Adventure #55

DC's My Greatest Adventure #55 from 1961 delivers the kind of gloriously unnerving sci-fi scenario that made this anthology series so irresistible. The cover, penciled by Dick Dillin and inked by Sheldon Moldoff, thrusts two men into genuine peril — one being grappled by a massive purple ant while another scrambles desperately to escape — all against the looming entrance of a giant ant-hill. A speech bubble warns that the very giant insects someone named Staley created have turned on their makers, promising imprisonment in the colony, and that delicious twist of "creation gone wrong" is written all over every inch of this wonderfully tense image.