Superman #102

The cover of Superman #102 poses a delicious question right on the masthead: "Can the Mighty Man of Steel be conquered by the Midget Menace from Outer Space?" — and the image makes it look genuinely plausible, as a sprawled, seemingly helpless Superman is swarmed by a small army of tiny alien beings operating strange devices all around him. Wayne Boring and Stan Kaye deliver a wonderfully eerie tableau that captures mid-1950s sci-fi imagination at its most inventive, blending the absurd with the genuinely unsettling. At just ten cents in 1956, this issue offered readers an all-new adventure with DC's greatest hero in a premise that's hard to resist.