Mystery in Space #40

From the cover by Gil Kane and Sol Harrison, a yellow-suited Earthman floats adrift in the star-flecked void, having pushed free of the Monarch of Mars — a saucer-shaped spacecraft carrying two wide-eyed alien passengers who watch in stunned silence as he drifts away. The speech bubble says it all: "The Earthman is sacrificing himself so that the rest of us will have a chance to survive!" — a gut-punch of selfless heroism rendered in vivid 1957 DC style. Featuring the story "Lifeboat in Space!" with interior work by Otto Binder, Sid Greene, and John Giunta, this issue of Mystery in Space captures that golden-age sense of wonder and genuine human stakes set against the infinite cosmos.