Uncanny Tales #35

This September 1955 Atlas anthology delivers three brand-new tales of the uncanny, led by the evocative cover story "The Last Two on Earth!" — and the cover by Joe Maneely and Carl Burgos sells the premise perfectly: a man and a distraught woman drift in a small rowboat through a flooded New York City, the intersection of 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue submerged beneath an eerie, rippling sea while skyscrapers loom silently in the background. The sheer desolation of that familiar urban landmark reduced to a street sign barely above water gives the scene a genuinely unsettling chill that mid-1950s science fiction did so well. Rounding out the issue are two more mysteries — "He Stands in the Shadows!" and "The Man Who Lived Again!" — making this a satisfying package of Atlas-era strange tales at the classic dime price.