Unusual Tales #27

This April 1961 Charlton anthology pulls readers in with a Steve Ditko cover built around an unsettling central image — a troubled man deep in thought, his face shadowed with unease, as swirling visions of futuristic machines and figures surround him. The cover text teases the central mystery perfectly: "I dreamed about this machine… it took me down… down… but was it only a dream? Or a… look into the future!" Inside, Joe Gill's writing teams with Bill Molno and Vince Alascia's art on stories including "Dr. Sino's Mistake," making this a solid slice of early-'60s sci-fi and mystery storytelling at a still-10-cent price point.