Strange Adventures #10

DC's Strange Adventures #10 (1951) packs 52 big pages of science-fiction thrills, spotlighting Captain Comet's battle against "The Air-Bandits from Space!" The cover by Carmine Infantino and Bernard Sachs puts a hulking, red-eyed green alien front and center, crackling with energy as shards of glass or metal fly through the air, while Captain Comet and a red-haired woman in a green-and-gold outfit scramble behind him. It's a vivid snapshot of early-'50s DC science fiction at its most imaginative, with a ten-cent cover price that belies the cosmic chaos within.