Mystery in Space #30

This 1956 DC gem features one of the era's most playful premises: red-skinned alien figures gathered around a "mind machine" that displays a portrait of a very familiar-looking world leader, captioned with the phonetic alien rendering "Izen-Hower." Gil Kane's cover draws you right into the scene — a bemused alien physician and his colleagues studying what they dismiss as a patient's delusions about an "impossible world named Earth." Otto Binder's writing and Carmine Infantino and Joe Giella's interior art promise the kind of clever, tongue-in-cheek science fiction that made Mystery in Space such a delight in the mid-1950s.