Strange Adventures #16

One of DC's premier "Amazing Science-Fiction Tales" anthologies from 1952, this issue of Strange Adventures presents a cover by Gil Kane that crackles with pulpy menace — a costumed, caped figure looms over a man and a blonde woman near the brooding stone face of an Easter Island statue, declaring they've betrayed the island's secret and must await their doom. The ancient mystery of Easter Island colliding with a colorful, threatening superhuman figure makes for an irresistible scene that perfectly captures the era's appetite for the exotic and the eerie. Inside, Murphy Anderson brings his skilled line work to the interior stories, including "The Ghost of Captain Comet!" — a solid reason to seek out this ten-cent slice of early-'50s DC imagination.