America's Greatest Comics #6

This 100-page 1943 Fawcett anthology puts Captain Marvel front and center on a cover penciled by C. C. Beck and inked by Pete Costanza, showing the red-suited hero manning a smoking machine gun as a film strip of fellow Fawcett heroes — including Spy Smasher, Minute Man, Commando Yank, and Mr. Scarlet & Pinky — unfurls dramatically around him. The cover's bold promise of "1000 Thrills a Minute" with "Machine Gun Action!" captures the all-out wartime energy Fawcett was delivering to readers that year. With a lineup of America's greatest heroes packed into a single dime-and-a-nickel package, this is a fine snapshot of superhero anthology publishing at full throttle.