Black Hood Comics #18

From Archie's mid-1940s superhero line comes this gripping 1946 installment — "The Case of the Shoes of Doom" — where things have clearly gone sideways for the Black Hood. Everett Kinstler's cover depicts the masked hero in his distinctive blue-and-yellow costume bound with ropes and gagged, while a young woman in a red dress is forcibly dragged away by an unseen assailant. It's a tense, well-composed scene that captures the pulpy danger of postwar superhero adventure at its ten-cent best.