Space Adventures #32

This January 1960 Charlton gem features cover art by Steve Ditko, whose dynamic panel layout immediately pulls you in — a menacing green alien figure looms large alongside a robot, while a rocket blazes skyward in a dramatic plume of fire and smoke, and a sleek spacecraft streaks across a planetary landscape below. Two stories are teased on the cover: "The Deadly Cargo of Spaceship 90" and "The Last Ship from Earth," promising the kind of tense, imaginative sci-fi that made this era of comics so compelling. With interior work also by Ditko and writer Joe Gill, this is a fine snapshot of Silver Age space-adventure storytelling at a dime a copy.