Spellbound #5

From Atlas Comics' early 1950s horror anthology comes Spellbound #5, cover-penciled by Sol Brodsky and inked by Christopher Rule. The cover sets an unsettling midnight scene: a glowing green figure in a suit and hat strides purposefully down a rain-slicked city street carrying a bag, while terrified onlookers — a man and woman stumbling back on the left, another man recoiling on the right, and a shadowed woman in a doorway — scramble to get away. Promising "the most spine-tingling tales ever told," this July 1952 issue is a fine example of the eerie, atmospheric horror fare that made Atlas anthologies a staple of the era.