Unusual Tales #6

Charlton's anthology of "Extraordinary Stories Never Before Told" delivers a memorably unsettling cover with this 1957 issue, featuring Steve Ditko's cover art of a massive, fanged sea creature rearing up from churning waves to loom over three terrified men in a small motorboat — the sheer scale of the beast against the tiny vessel makes the threat feel genuinely overwhelming. Inside, writer Joe Gill and artist Dick Giordano (inked by Vince Alascia, lettered by Jon D'Agostino) bring you "The Strange Power" among the issue's collection of offbeat tales. At just ten cents, Unusual Tales #6 is a fine snapshot of the imaginative, creature-driven storytelling that made late-1950s anthology comics such a treat.