Spaceman #3

From Atlas Comics' 1954 sci-fi anthology line comes this ten-cent thrill: Speed Carter: Spaceman and the Space Sentinels puts its heroes in immediate peril on the cover, where a massive, fanged green reptilian creature looms out of a glowing red void above a jagged, icy alien landscape. A small team of space-suited figures on the ground below scramble and fire back against the beast, capturing that irresistible "humanity vs. the cosmos" tension that made mid-'50s science fiction so compelling. Bill Everett's cover art delivers a striking sense of scale and menace, with interior stories by Hank Chapman and Joe Maneely promising more "science-fiction tales of men in space" within.