Mystery in Space #36

A giant sphinx looms over a barren lunar landscape, its eyes blazing with energy beams toward a sleek rocket tower, while two space-suited figures scramble in the foreground — it's a wonderfully strange image that captures the era's boundless appetite for cosmic mystery. This March 1957 DC anthology issue promises "All New Stories" and directly challenges readers to solve the secret before the tale reveals it. Cover pencils by Gil Kane and inks by Jack Adler give the scene a vivid, pulpy grandeur that makes this ten-cent issue a real time capsule of late-1950s science fiction imagination.