Strange Adventures #11

From 1951, this DC anthology delivers 52 big pages of science-fiction thrills with a cover by Bob Oksner and Bernard Sachs that sets the stakes immediately: Captain Comet stands his ground in front of the U.S. Capitol, blasting away at a massive prehistoric serpentine monster while panicked civilians flee in every direction. The cover copy promises "The World Wakes Up Screaming — When Monsters from the Dawn of Time Invade the 20th Century!" and the image delivers exactly that dread with real energy. Inside, writer Edgar Ray Merritt and artist Carmine Infantino (inked by Bernard Sachs) bring the adventure to life in "The Day the Past Came Back!" — a ten-cent package that captures early-'50s DC science fiction at its most imaginative.