All-American Comics #41

From 1942, this DC anthology issue spotlights Green Lantern front and center, his distinctive red-and-green costume unmistakable as he squares off against a masked opponent amid what appears to be a blazing village scene with totem poles in the background — the story is even titled "The Tribe of Terror," which sets the mood perfectly. Irwin Hasen's cover art crackles with kinetic energy, arrows cutting through the air and a giant lance slicing diagonally across the composition to give the whole scene a real sense of danger. At a dime a copy, All-American Comics #41 offers a vivid snapshot of Golden Age superhero adventure at its most visceral.