Tales of the Unexpected #49

From DC's Tales of the Unexpected comes this May 1960 ten-cent thriller, featuring the lead story "The Fantastic Lunar-Land." Bob Brown's cover pulls you straight into a tense alien standoff: Space Ranger aims his stun-gun at three menacing green-skinned duplicates of the villain Zastro, while a woman looks on in alarm — and the cover copy makes clear that firing on either duplicate could release a deadly gas that destroys an entire planet. It's a perfectly constructed sci-fi dilemma, the kind of imaginative corner DC's anthology titles excelled at putting their heroes into in 1960.