Strange Tales #42

Sol Brodsky's cover for this January 1956 Atlas anthology sets the mood perfectly: a sinister figure in a yellow coat with a completely blank, featureless face stalks toward a terrified couple — a man in green and a woman in red — cowering against a rain-slicked alley wall. The bold cover question "Who Was… 'The Faceless One'?" promises exactly the kind of eerie, twilight-zone suspense that made Strange Tales one of the era's most entertaining anthology titles. With Carl Wessler writing and Bill Everett handling the art and lettering inside, this issue brings genuine craft to its brand-new lineup of strange tales.