Mystery in Space #17

From DC's sci-fi anthology series comes this December–January 1953 issue, with a cover by Murphy Anderson that sets an eerie, otherworldly tone: a procession of bizarre figures — green-skinned aliens, a hulking beast-man, a robot, a helmeted warrior, and a human among them — marches single-file along a curved cosmic pathway above a strange alien cityscape. The teaser asks, "What was the strange execution that awaited those doomed to walk… 'The Last Mile of Space?'" — a question that makes this imaginative slice of early-'50s DC science fiction genuinely hard to put down.