Strange Suspense Stories #57

A turbaned mystic known as Kandor dominates this January 1962 Charlton issue, his long-fingered hands hovering over a glowing crystal ball as chaotic visions swirl around him — a screaming woman, wide-eyed faces, crashing cars, and bursts of gunfire all colliding in a frenzied montage. The cover art by Bill Molno and Vince Alascia packs the yellow-drenched page with nervous energy, perfectly suited to Charlton's tradition of eerie, imaginative anthology fare. With Joe Gill writing and Rocco Mastroserio on interior art, this ten-cent issue promises the kind of offbeat supernatural storytelling that made Strange Suspense Stories a dependable source of pulpy thrills in the early 1960s.