Strange Adventures #54

High atop an electrical tower, a man is caught in a crackling surge of white energy that wraps around him like a living force — Murphy Anderson's cover art crackles with genuine tension as the poor fellow is flung helplessly against the industrial machinery far above a small town below. DC's Strange Adventures #54 from 1955 poses the tantalizing question right on the cover: "Can You Guess the Secret of… The Electric Man?" Inside, writer John Broome and artist Sy Barry deliver what promises to be a charged tale of science gone strange — exactly the kind of imaginative what-if storytelling that made this anthology series a delight.