Strange Tales #48

Atlas Comics' Strange Tales #48 from July 1956 delivers the brand of eerie suspense the series did so well, with a cover by Carl Burgos that pulls you right into the dread. A wild-eyed, desperate man dominates the foreground, his haunted expression perfectly matched by the tagline "I've Got to Hide!", while a vignette scene shows a figure struggling through crashing waves near a cave opening as two more figures flee into the darkness beyond. Promises of "The Man Who Stole a Skyscraper!" round out a cover that teases an anthology packed with the kind of tense, imaginative storytelling that made mid-1950s Atlas anthologies so compelling.