Blonde Phantom Comics #20

This November 1948 issue puts "America's Lovely Lady of Adventure" in immediate peril — the cover by Syd Shores and Vince Alascia captures the Blonde Phantom in her striking red dress and mask lunging toward an open elevator shaft, warned by desperate shouts from an elevator operator beside her while figures scramble on the stairs behind them. The tension is palpable and the diagonal composition brilliantly sells the breathless urgency of a woman mid-chase who may be one step away from disaster. Promising "breath-taking thrills and spine-tingling mystery," this is Golden Age adventure at a genuinely exciting pitch.