Space Adventures #27

Charlton's Space Adventures #27 (February 1959) opens with a striking Dick Giordano cover that captures the breathless danger of the space age: a figure in a white spacesuit tumbles helplessly through the star-filled void while a sleek yellow rocket bears down on them, with a ringed planet visible in the distance below. Inside, writer Joe Gill and artist Steve Ditko bring you "The Hostile Planet," a creative team well suited to tales of cosmic peril and the unknown. As a bonus, the issue also touts a contest with 8,000 prizes — making this ten-cent Charlton gem a little extra special for readers of 1959.