Adventure Comics #36

From March 1939, this pulp-era gem from DC delivers a vivid promise right on its cover: a determined man in a torn white shirt wrestles bare-handed against a massive, fanged serpent while aiming a pistol at its striking head, all set against a jungle backdrop with an ominous volcano smoldering in the distance. The cover art by John Richard Flanagan crackles with raw tension, capturing that golden age spirit of lone adventurers facing nature at its most dangerous. Inside, 64 pages of thrills await, including the latest chapter of "Fang Gow of China" with writing and art by Tom Hickey and a story by Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson — plenty of adventure for a dime.