Mystery in Space #12

From DC's early science fiction anthology series comes this 1953 entry promising to "expose the strange secrets of other worlds." The cover by Ruben Moreira delivers a vivid scene of cosmic chaos: a sleek red spacecraft hovers overhead, its massive horseshoe magnet crackling with energy as scores of helpless people are wrenched off the ground and hurled into the air — Earth itself seemingly at the mercy of "The Human Magnet." With interior work from writer Gardner Fox and artist Murphy Anderson, this ten-cent issue captures that era's irresistible blend of pulp dread and wide-eyed wonder about what dangers might lurk beyond our world.