Strange Adventures #99

From the imagination-fueled pages of late-1950s DC comes Strange Adventures #99, featuring "The Big Jump Into Space!" — and Gil Kane's cover delivers the premise with breathless energy. A helmeted parachutist leaps dramatically from a jet aircraft high above jagged mountain peaks, clutching what appears to be a rocket-propelled device, with a flying saucer overhead and other parachutists visible in the distance. It's a vivid, kinetic snapshot of Cold War-era space-race wonder, with interior work by the creative team of writer Otto Binder and artist Carmine Infantino with inks by Joe Giella.