Strange Adventures #78

A wide-eyed man bolts upright in bed, his face a mask of disbelief as he stares down at three tiny spacemen — in full helmets and colorful suits — standing on his nightstand beside an alarm clock and what appears to be a miniature rocket. This 1957 DC gem features Gil Kane's pencils and Bernard Sachs's inks bringing that wonderfully unsettling Silver Age premise — "The Secret of the Tom Thumb Spacemen!" — to vivid life. If you love the era's blend of everyday domestic settings crashing headlong into the impossible, this issue of Strange Adventures delivers that magic in a single irresistible image.