Space Adventures #17

Through the porthole of a spacecraft, Rocky Jones and a red-haired woman in matching space suits watch with tense fascination as a purple-suited figure tumbles helplessly through a roiling cloud of yellow gas in the void beyond. Charlton's 1955 Space Adventures #17 brings the Space Ranger's world to vivid life thanks to cover art by Ted Galindo and Ray Osrin, who squeeze genuine drama out of that tight two-shot framing — the danger outside feels all the more urgent for being glimpsed through that circular window. "Fate of the Treasure Seekers" promises exactly the kind of cosmic peril the cover delivers.