It's as close to poetry as comic book stories can come. From out of nowhere in the second issue of Charlton Premiere a little gem of a tale was told by Denny O'Neil (as "Sergius O'Shaugnessay") and the late great Pat Boyette. "Children of Doom" is one of those yarns that rises above its genre roots and takes hold of your imagination in strange ways and unexpected ways. The story is part apocalypse, part ghost story, and part vintage space opera and yet none of these really. It's a truly unique tale (an overused word) told with pace and using the range of Boyette's artistic techniques to throw actual real atmosphere into a comic book story, something quite rare.
If you'd like to read this 1967 classic online check out this Groovy link.
If you'd like to read it in paper form of course you can seek out the original or perhaps one of its reprints. There's the 1978 reprint in Space War #32.
And more recently the 2010 publication from Abrams Books of Art in Time.
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