Strange Adventures #61

A sun-baked desert traveler and his burro stop in their tracks as a gleaming alien cityscape — towering pink spires and ringed structures bathed in golden light — materializes impossibly in the sky before them, with cacti and canyon walls framing the otherworldly vision. Gil Kane and Joe Giella's cover perfectly captures the head-spinning premise: an ordinary Earthman somehow witnesses close-up scenes of a planet 800 million miles away. Otto Binder's script and Gil Kane's interior art (inked by Bernard Sachs) make this 1955 DC anthology gem a satisfying slice of the era's boundless curiosity about what might lie just beyond our world.