a micro menace!

This is short story from My Greatest Adventure #76, February, 1963  A scientist accidentally gets involved in some Middle Eastern intrigue and creates a large microbe.  It grows to a gigantic size and menaces the area.  The scientist must find a way to stop the bacterium from taking over the world.  Spoilers: he succeeds!

I have to say I am really enjoying reading these old comic books.  Mort Meskin wrote and drew this story and it is very typical of DC at the time frame.  Unlike Marvel monsters, DC monsters did not have names.  There was no Fin Fang Foom or Groot within these pages.  These were very much what I consider western monsters, usually enlarged creatures we were already familiar with.

Not that there is anything wrong with those, just a different flavor.  I enjoyed both Marvel monsters and these oddball DC sci-fi stories.  DC definitely had an artistic look from the late 50s clean into the 70s. Even Gil Kane and Carmine Infantino, who were as unique artistically as Kirby and Ditko had a DC Comics house style.  Perhaps it was the coloring or the inking, but even as a kid I could tell a DC mag without a cover from a Marvel mag without a cover.