Spellbound #27

This Atlas Comics anthology from 1956 promises "Stories to Hold You" — and the cover of Spellbound #27 wastes no time making good on that tagline. A terrified man in a white shirt floats helplessly within a swirling vortex, caught between a crowd of stunned city onlookers and a shadowy, Egyptian pyramid-flanked realm where a hulking creature lurks — all teasing the featured tale "The Trap in the Mirage." Cover art by Carl Burgos and Sol Brodsky gives the scene a vivid, vertigo-inducing pull that captures exactly the kind of eerie suspense this series delivered so well.