Strange Adventures #137

From DC's imaginative 1962 science-fiction anthology comes this wonderfully offbeat entry — "Parade of the Space-Toys!" — featuring a street parade of animated toy soldiers, rockets, a rumbling tank, and a lumbering robot marching past a crowd of astonished onlookers, billed right on the cover as "Earth's last hope of driving off the aliens who have invaded our world!" Murphy Anderson's crisp linework brings a delightful tension between the whimsy of toy-store figures and the genuine stakes implied by an alien invasion. It's exactly the kind of high-concept premise that made Strange Adventures one of DC's most entertaining sci-fi anthologies of the era.