Mystery in Space #81

This 1963 DC anthology delivers a full book-length Adam Strange adventure, "The Cloud-Creature That Menaced Two Worlds!" — and the cover by Carmine Infantino and Murphy Anderson makes the stakes unmistakably clear. A massive, menacing cloud entity with a humanoid face and grasping hands clutches Adam Strange in mid-flight, his red-and-gold rocket-pack blazing as he's caught helplessly in its grip above a jagged alien landscape. It's a wonderfully imaginative bit of Silver Age science-fantasy that showcases exactly why Mystery in Space was DC's premier destination for cosmic adventure.