All-American Comics #67

A mid-1945 gem from DC's All-American Comics line, this issue puts the Green Lantern front and center in a vivid construction-site confrontation — the cover by Paul Reinman shows the masked hero in his red-and-green costume swooping in to intercept what looks like crane machinery while a heavyset villain in a yellow-striped suit scrambles away, all under the bold teaser "'King' Shark Comes Back!" A small inset portrait of aviator Hop Harrigan in the corner reminds readers just how much adventure was packed into a single ten-cent package in 1945. Alfred Bester's interior story, "Death Unavoidably Detained!," promises the kind of pulpy, high-stakes storytelling that made this era of comics so endlessly entertaining.