Mystery in Space #44

One of DC's premier sci-fi anthologies of 1958 delivers a genuinely audacious premise right on Gil Kane's cover: a sleek red flying saucer-style spacecraft hovers in the star-filled void, tethered by cables to the entire landmass of North America — literally ripped free from Earth and hauled into space. The sheer scale of that image, a continent dangling like cargo against the curve of the globe, captures exactly the kind of imaginative "what if?" storytelling that made Mystery in Space such a rewarding read in its era. With Otto Binder writing and Sid Greene on interior art, "The Amazing Space-Flight of North America!" promises the sort of grand, playful science-fiction that DC was doing so well at ten cents a copy.