The Thing #13

Charlton's The Thing! #13 delivers exactly the kind of delirious mid-1950s horror its "Weird Tales of Suspense and Horror" banner promises. Steve Ditko's cover is a fever dream of dripping green slime, two grotesque fanged creatures looming over a terrified man clutching what appears to be a scroll or ancient text, while a single guttering candle casts an eerie glow across a stone dungeon setting. It's a wonderfully unsettling composition from an artist already showing the restless imagination that would define his career.