Black Hood Comics #17

From Archie's winter 1946 lineup comes this gripping issue of Black Hood Comics, featuring a cover by Everett Kinstler that wastes no time setting a tense, pulpy mood. The Black Hood — clad in his distinctive yellow-and-blue costume — charges down stone steps through a burst of flames, while a woman in a red dress, gagged and chained to a brick wall, grips a revolver with desperate determination. With interior work by writer Bill Woolfolk and artist Irv Novick on a story titled "Sweet Dreams of Death," this ten-cent package delivers exactly the kind of high-stakes heroics that made Golden Age crime comics so compelling.