Strange Adventures #79

Two massive snowman-like beings from the Ice World dominate this cover, one defiantly declaring "Our plan to conquer Earth cannot fail! We are invulnerable!" as a rocket ship streaks through a wintry mountain sky behind them. Gil Kane's cover art makes these frosty invaders feel genuinely menacing despite their familiar forms, with coal-dot features and top hats lending an eerie contrast to their declared conquest. Strange Adventures #79 from 1957 promises the kind of imaginative sci-fi premise DC did so well in the era — "Invaders from the Ice World!" with a story by Gardner Fox and interior art by Carmine Infantino and Bernard Sachs is a ten-cent ticket to wonderfully inventive territory.