Mystery in Space #31

A wonderfully eerie image greets readers of this 1956 DC anthology: two space travelers — a helmeted man at the controls and a woman in yellow pointing in alarm — stare at a viewscreen showing Earth with an entire hemisphere sliced cleanly away, its molten interior exposed against a star-filled void. The cover by Gil Kane perfectly captures that golden-age sense of wide-eyed cosmic dread, teasing the featured story "The Day the Earth Split in Two!" inside. With all-new science-fiction tales priced at a dime, Mystery in Space #31 is a fine snapshot of mid-1950s DC at its most imaginatively unsettling.