Adventure Comics #181

Adventure Comics #181 brings a tense street-level drama to its cover, where a masked man in a yellow suit struggles against a crowd of onlookers demanding he remove his disguise — one man grabbing at him while a woman and bystanders press in, all insisting they see his true face. High above the commotion, Superboy streaks through the sky with urgent purpose, his speech bubble declaring "I mustn't let them see his face!" Win Mortimer's clean, expressive linework captures the push-and-pull tension perfectly, making "A Mask for a Hero!" a compelling 1952 slice of the Superboy mythos.