Mystery in Space #27

DC's Mystery in Space #27 from 1955 serves up one of the era's most wonderfully strange images: a giant, water-filled transparent sphere resting on an alien landscape, with several swimmers trapped and tumbling helplessly inside it while a crowd of onlookers below stares up in wide-eyed disbelief. The cover by Ruben Moreira captures that perfect mid-50s blend of science-fiction unease and sheer visual spectacle — you genuinely can't look away from the sight of those hapless figures suspended in a floating aquatic prison. Packed with all-new stories, including the featured "The Human Fishbowl!", this ten-cent issue is a fine example of DC's imaginative approach to sci-fi anthology comics during the golden age of the genre.