My Greatest Adventure #60

This October 1961 DC anthology delivers one of the era's most unsettling cover concepts: a hulking, pink-skinned alien creature looms enormously over a terrified man crawling on a yellow ground, the beast appearing to rise directly out of the helpless figure's own body. The cover story, "The Alien Within Me!," is announced right on the image, and the man's thought bubble — "What — what's happening to me? A fantastic being — rising right out of my body!" — perfectly captures that delicious mid-century sci-fi dread. Cover pencils by Dick Dillin and inks by Sheldon Moldoff give the creature a genuinely imposing presence, making this a fine example of the imaginative storytelling My Greatest Adventure delivered month after month.