Tales of the Unexpected #61

Two towering, fang-bared titan beasts dominate this striking 1961 DC cover by Bob Brown, while a lone space-suited figure stands between them, faced with an impossible dilemma — his speech bubble reveals that one of those creatures is actually his shape-shifted assistant, Cryll. Billed as a Space Ranger adventure tied to "The Mystery of the Mythical Monsters," the cover perfectly captures the delightful sci-fi paranoia that made Tales of the Unexpected such a compelling anthology series of the era. At a dime a copy, this was imaginative storytelling fuel for a generation of young readers.