Space Adventures #18

From Charlton's Space Adventures comes this 1955 Rocky Jones, Space Ranger adventure, with cover art by Dick Giordano and Jon D'Agostino capturing a sleek silver rocket poised for launch on an alien landscape. In the cockpit panel, Rocky and a red-haired woman — likely Vena, as the speech bubble suggests — exchange tense words alongside a wide-eyed young boy, hinting at high stakes aboard what one character calls "science's greatest achievement." Titled "Gravity-Plus" and crafted inside by Joe Gill and Giordano, this ten-cent gem delivers the kind of earnest, optimistic sci-fi spirit that made mid-century space comics so endearing.