Strange Suspense Stories #56

A wild-eyed scientist brandishes a small bottle toward a hulking, shadowy creature gripping iron bars — his speech bubble promising the secret way "to live Again!" — all while a bubbling laboratory array fills the foreground in this unsettling 1961 Charlton chiller. The cover, penciled by Bill Molno and inked by Vince Alascia, sets a deliciously eerie tone that carries right into the promised "unusual tingler," "The Man from Mars," written by Joe Gill with art by Rocco Mastroserio. Strange Suspense Stories #56 is a fine snapshot of early-sixties anthology horror at its most atmospheric, still carrying that proud ten-cent cover price.