Space Adventures #53

Charlton's Space Adventures #53 brings the cosmos a little closer to home with this striking 1963 cover by penciler Bill Montes and inker Ernie Bache. Seen through the cockpit viewport of a spacecraft, a group of wide-eyed human astronauts comes face-to-face with a colony of muscular, yellow-skinned lunar beings advancing across a domed lunar landscape filled with stars — the cover teases the story "The Men in the Moon" with genuine sci-fi menace. Writer Joe Gill and artist Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio bring their talents to the interior tale "Island Earth," making this a satisfying slice of early-'60s space-age wonder.