Mr. Risk

Emerging from the fertile imagination of the Golden Age, Mr. Risk made his debut in Our Flag Comics #5 in 1942, a product of Ace Magazines' scrappy, adventurous lineup that punched well above its weight during comics' earliest era. Rare and elusive with only three catalog appearances — spanning his own titled series alongside Our Flag Comics — he's the kind of obscure gem that serious Golden Age collectors live to track down. He shares his wartime pages with the likes of Poke Bancroft and Kirk Mason, keeping lively company in that wonderfully chaotic mid-century anthology world. For fans who love digging into the less-charted corners of 1940s comics history, Mr. Risk is exactly the sort of discovery that makes the hunt worthwhile.