Buccaneers #23

This Quality Comics adventure from September 1950 puts the high-seas action front and center, with Captain Daring locked in a fierce sword duel against a menacing dark-haired pirate on the deck of a ship, while a red-haired woman looks on and a eye-patched buccaneer lurks in the lower corner. The cover tagline promises "cannons roar and steel clashes against steel" as Captain Daring takes on the treasure-hungry plunderers of the sea — and the illustration delivers every bit of that tension. For fans of swashbuckling adventure, this issue of Buccaneers captures the genre at its most colorful and energetic.