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classic Everett anti-smoking cover (10/52)
Maybe Atlas didn't have quite the iconic covers or classic illustrative style that EC boasted, but when they were on target, boy howdy did Atlas's horror covers deliver. Witness, true beliver, as the beloved Bill Everett, one of comicdom's undisputed giants, puts his talents to the then-trendy horror genre, with a delightfully gruesome cover that has become a classic in its own right. The house layout style used for Atlas's anthology books of the time did their cover artists no favors, giving them an unusually small amount of front-of-book real estate to work with, but Everett would not only rise to the challenge, but invariably provide miniature masterclasses in use of space and composition. Note especially the clever way in which he draws the eye, via the smoke trails of the cigarette, to the astonished onlookers otherwise hidden in the back of this foreshortened image, just one way in which he packs as much awesomeness as possible into a limited space. A truly terrific cover, one revered by hardcore pre-code horror fanatics.