Tales of the Unexpected #29

Drifting alone through the star-filled void, a young woman in red lies in suspended sleep aboard the life capsule S.S. Stardust while a fish-shaped spacecraft filled with onlookers hovers nearby in this striking 1958 DC entry in the Tales of the Unexpected series. Howard Purcell's cover art captures the era's sense of wonder beautifully, pairing cosmic isolation with a fairy-tale twist announced by the featured story title, "The Sleeping Beauty of Space." It's a wonderfully evocative ten-cent package that showcases late-'50s science fiction comics at their imaginative best.