All-American Comics #14

A mid-air scramble bursts across this May 1940 cover by Jon L. Blummer, showing Hop Harrigan clutching a small dog while plummeting through a chaotic tangle of parachute lines — a wide-eyed companion to his left and a goggled figure tumbling to his right, with aircraft wreckage exploding in a brilliant flash behind them all. The sheer kinetic energy of the scene captures exactly the sort of aviation adventure that gave this anthology series its pulse in the early Golden Age. Inside, Carl H. Claudy and Stan Asch deliver "Mystery of Spott Field," promising that Hop's sky-high thrills continue well beyond the cover.