Tales of the Unexpected #43

A trapped pilot cries out "Heat rays melting my flier — I'm trapped!" as his sleek spacecraft buckles under a fiery alien assault in Bob Brown's vivid cover for this 1959 DC anthology. Green-suited extraterrestrials man their weapons from the rocky terrain while the desperate astronaut struggles inside his disintegrating cockpit — a perfectly tense snapshot of Cold War-era science-fiction imagination. Rounding out the package is a new Space Ranger Adventure alongside the interior tale "The Riddle of the Burning Treasures," with art by Jim Mooney, making this a satisfying ten-cent package of otherworldly thrills.