Outer Space #25

This December 1959 Charlton gem features a wonderfully unsettling cover by Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio: a stunned man recoils in his chair as a crumbling, disintegrating Moon hovers impossibly before him, while observers in the background point skyward in disbelief — all accompanied by the breathless caption, "It can't be but it is! The moon has just… disappeared." Featuring the story "The Man Who Stole the Moon," this issue captures that era's gleeful appetite for cosmic dread and scientific impossibility at its ten-cent best. Toss in the promise of free prizes inside, and this is pure late-'50s Charlton charm in one compact package.