Strange Tales #36

This June 1955 Atlas anthology delivers one of its more visually arresting covers, rendered by Carl Burgos: a man in a brown suit reaches dramatically skyward from a city rooftop stairway as the sky splits between eerie blue darkness and warm sunlight — a half-eclipsed sun hovering ominously at the divide. On the sunlit side of the cityscape, two onlookers watch the spectacle from a neighboring rooftop, making the scene feel both vast and strangely intimate. The lead story, "The Man Who Turned Off the Sun!," promises exactly the kind of science-tinged, suspense-drenched fare that made Strange Tales of Suspense such a reliable thrill for mid-'50s readers.