Unusual Tales #20

A January 1960 Charlton anthology that wears its mystery on its sleeve — literally, as the cover by Charles Nicholas and Vince Alascia arranges its story teasers inside an oversized question mark, with vignettes of a crystalline stone figure, a bound man strapped to a chair, and a wide-eyed fellow recoiling in alarm against a tilting cityscape backdrop. Three tales are advertised — "The Unbelievable Stone Man," "The Time Cap," and "Demon Within" — and the cover copy sums up the whole spirit perfectly: "All life is full of questions… but we know little of the answers, therefore we have the Unusual." With interior work from Joe Gill, Bill Molno, and Rocco Mastroserio, this ten-cent Charlton gem delivers exactly the kind of eerie, imagination-first storytelling the title promises.