Space Adventures #30

A terrific slice of late-1950s sci-fi anthology comics from Charlton, this September 1959 issue of Space Adventures leads with a genuinely unsettling cover by Dick Giordano — a wide-eyed astronaut in a red spacesuit points in alarm at the Moon, which bears a strange spiral marking, while a looming shadowy alien figure watches from the right, and a speech balloon declares, "The Moon… It's an Egg! A Monstrous Egg!" Four story titles are teased in circular badges along the bottom — "The Monstrous Egg," "Fugitive from Mars," "Marooned in Space," and "Peril in the Sky" — promising a full issue of interplanetary thrills. Written by Joe Gill with interior art by Charles Nicholas and Jon D'Agostino, this ten-cent package captures exactly the wide-open sense of cosmic wonder that made Charlton's science fiction line such an entertaining read in 1959.