Strange Tales #58

Atlas Comics' pre-hero anthology at its eerie best — this May 1957 issue of Strange Tales poses a genuinely unsettling mystery right on its cover: a man in a blue suit drifts horizontally through the city air, limp and weightless above a crowded urban rooftop, while bewildered onlookers peer from windows and building ledges all around him. The cover art by Bill Everett and Carl Burgos captures that perfect blend of the mundane and inexplicable that made Strange Tales of Suspense so compelling, with the packed tenement backdrop making the floating figure feel all the more impossible. With the lead story titled "He Floats Thru the Air," this issue promises exactly the kind of quietly chilling what-if scenario that kept readers reaching for their dimes.