Unusual Tales #36

Charlton's Unusual Tales serves up prime early-'60s science-fiction dread with this November 1962 issue featuring the story "Love Thy Neighbor." Dick Giordano's cover is a vivid nightmare in yellow-green and purple, showing a terrified man recoiling as a swarm of bulbous, beaked alien creatures — some crawling along the ground, others looming large on either side — close in around him. It's the kind of creepy, atmospheric image that made Charlton's anthology titles such a reliable source of imaginative chills.