Strange Adventures #104

From DC's long-running science-fiction anthology comes this May 1959 issue headlined "World of Doomed Spacemen!" — and Gil Kane's cover makes the stakes immediately clear. A colossal, menacing bald figure looms over a winged-helmeted spaceman in yellow and orange, whose ray weapon crackles with energy against the giant's outstretched hand, all set against a stark cosmic backdrop with a spacecraft streaking past above. It's a tense, vividly rendered showdown that captures everything memorable about late-1950s DC sci-fi at a dime a copy.