Unusual Tales #35

This September 1962 Charlton anthology delivers the kind of eerie tension that made the pre-Marvel Silver Age so compelling — the cover by Bill Molno drops us into a smoke-filled underground cavern where a suited man declares "Now I will learn the secret!" while a hulking, purple subterranean creature looms just in front of him, both figures bathed in flickering flames. The scene teases the featured story "The Hiding Room," promising monsters rising from beneath the earth to the surface world. Inside, writer Joe Gill and artist Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio bring their own tale, "The Face of Sadu," rounding out what looks to be a genuinely unsettling issue of weird fiction.