Strange Tales #44

Three vignettes pack this 1956 Atlas anthology with dread and wonder: a hunched, grotesque creature lurks in a shadowy cave tunnel in "Look Out Below!," while "Safari in the Sky!" promises something wildly surreal — a close-up face watching tiny figures and an elephant tumbling through open sky. On the right, a lone silhouetted man stands before an ominous, glowing doorway, teasing the unsettling promise of "The Mysterious Boarder!" Carl Burgos's cover art juggles all three moods — subterranean menace, airborne strangeness, and creeping domestic unease — with striking color contrasts that make this issue of Strange Tales of Suspense feel like three spine-tingling stories for the price of one thin dime.