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Cover: Jack Sparling

Strange Adventures #196

Jan 1967 · DC · 0.12 USD
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“Mystery of the Orbit Creatures”

Four enormous eyeballs dominate this eerie January 1967 DC cover, each iris reflecting a different scene of chaos and destruction — crashing vehicles, explosions, and catastrophe glimpsed as if through some terrifying supernatural lens. At the bottom, a cloaked, ghostly figure looms over a frightened woman in a yellow dress, making the cover's bold warning feel all the more urgent: "Keep Away from the Deadly Gaze of… 'The Man with the Computer Eyes'!" Jack Sparling's unsettling cover design turns a simple sci-fi conceit into something genuinely creepy, making this twelve-cent issue of Strange Adventures a memorable slice of late-'60s DC anthology storytelling.

artist, inker Lee Elias · cover Jack Sparling

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artist, inker Lee Elias
cover pencils, inks Jack Sparling

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Two astronauts encounter a strange inhabited asteroid and believe that the aliens on it intend to attack Earth.

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