Boy Commandos #17

Here's a striking 1946 DC offering from the Boy Commandos series, with a cover penciled by Jack Kirby that plunges readers straight into underwater mayhem — two divers in yellow suits struggle against a tangle of cables while menacing green mechanical figures loom below, weapons raised against a burning cityscape backdrop. The tension is palpable, with a third diver in the foreground clutching a gun, clearly outmatched but far from finished. "The Stolen Centuries" promises the kind of pulpy, action-packed adventure that made this series such a thrill at the newsstands in 1946.