Tales of the Unexpected #24

This 1958 DC anthology delivers the kind of wide-eyed cosmic adventure that made the era so irresistible, featuring the story "The Secret of Planetoid Zero" alongside the cover-billed "Jungle Boy of Jupiter." Lou Cameron's cover art plunges you right into an alien confrontation — a young rider atop a magnificent winged creature swoops to the rescue of a group of humans, while a crowd of unsettling, large-headed alien beings looms in the foreground, one exclaiming in alarm about "an Earth boy riding a strange bird." For a dime, this issue packed enough interplanetary tension and pulpy imagination to keep any young reader riveted on a 1958 Saturday afternoon.