Tales of the Unexpected #33

A returning traveler gets the shock of his life in this 1959 DC sci-fi anthology, as the cover — penciled and inked by Lou Cameron — shows a bewildered man in a red suit dropping his suitcase on a small-town sidewalk, exclaiming "Great Stars! What's happened to my home town? Who are those creatures?" The answer stands right in front of him: a pair of lanky, pink-skinned aliens strolling past a restaurant like it's perfectly normal, one of them casually noting, "Look! An alien! We're being invaded!" — a wonderfully ironic reversal that sets the tone for the featured story "Martian Town, U.S.A." Tales of the Unexpected #33 captures that golden-age charm of everyday American settings turned gloriously strange, all for a dime.