Tales of the Unexpected #44

A wonderfully strange corner of DC's 1959 sci-fi anthology line, this issue of Tales of the Unexpected promises a Space Ranger adventure with its featured story, "The Menace of the Indian Aliens." The cover by Dick Dillin and Sheldon Moldoff drops readers onto one of Saturn's moons, where a suited Space Ranger confronts a group of green, multi-eyed alien beings who have adopted the customs of a tribal society — complete with a chief seated in full headdress, a teepee, and a totem pole looming in the background against a ringed-planet sky. It's exactly the kind of delightfully offbeat premise that made DC's mystery and sci-fi titles so much fun in this era, blending outer-space adventure with the unexpected at every turn.