Blonde Phantom Comics #16

A fashion show turns deadly in this 1947 Marvel thriller, as the masked Blonde Phantom — stunning in her signature red gown — confronts a green-dressed redhead at gunpoint, both women tangled in the draped backstage curtains while elegantly dressed models and a tuxedoed man look on in the background. The cover caption promises the story "Modelled For Murder!" and the dramatic exchange makes the stakes unmistakably clear: someone in this glamorous crowd is a killer. Penciled and inked by Syd Shores, with additional inks by Vince Alascia, the cover delivers exactly the kind of sharp, pulpy tension that made Blonde Phantom one of Marvel's most distinctive heroines of the Golden Age.