Strange Adventures #51

A striking 1954 cover by Murphy Anderson sets the scene for a world where breathable air has become a scarce commodity — a pink pump labeled "100% Pure Oxygen, Government Inspected" dominates the foreground, with a man in a jacket and cap filling a tank while a woman in a white dress and a young boy look on anxiously. A bystander in the background voices the crowd's worry: "I hope they have enough air to supply all of us!" Written by Otto Binder with interior art by Sy Barry, this Strange Adventures tale promises the kind of imaginative, breathless science-fiction premise that made DC's anthology titles so compelling in the early 1950s.