Mystery in Space #18

This February–March 1954 DC anthology promises to expose "The Strange Secrets of Other Worlds," and the cover by Murphy Anderson and Joe Giella delivers a striking vision of interplanetary captivity: a spacesuit-clad figure drifts through the starry void, firing at a chain of transparent cube-shaped cells, each holding a colorfully costumed alien prisoner. The feature story, "The Chain Gang of Space," teases the wild premise of nine prisoners from nine different planets, written by Jack Miller with interior art by Jerry Grandenetti and Joe Giella. It's a wonderfully imaginative slice of early-'50s science fiction comics, brimming with the era's boundless curiosity about what might lurk beyond our own world.