Strange Adventures #89

A delightful slice of late-1950s DC science fiction, Strange Adventures #89 features the story "Earth for Sale" — and the cover by Gil Kane and Joe Giella lays out the premise with wonderful deadpan wit. Two wide-eyed alien visitors hand over a container of Saturnian sand to a sharply dressed human man, while a crowd of onlookers observes the transaction, the aliens declaring they've accepted sand as payment for Earth and the man smugly revealing they've tricked Saturn into buying the planet. It's the kind of clever, high-concept cosmic con-game that made DC's 1958 anthology titles such a treat for imaginative readers.