Tales of the Unexpected #31

A massive mechanical arm stretches across the cosmos, its claw-like tip latching onto Earth itself — and from the surface of the Moon below, a lone figure in a spacesuit watches in alarm as the planet is dragged from its orbit. Bob Brown's cover for this 1958 DC anthology captures that golden-age spirit of grand, cosmic dread with the cover-blurb warning, "That giant magnet in space — it's pulling the Earth out of its orbit!" Tales of the Unexpected #31 delivers exactly the kind of imaginative, larger-than-life scenario the series did so well, pairing planetary peril with the irresistible story title "Keep Off Our Planet." For fans of late-1950s science-fiction comics, this one is a genuine treat.