Buccaneers #26

This Quality Comics swashbuckler from 1951 delivers high-seas action right on its cover, where the dashing Captain Daring — red-jacketed and grinning — plants a boot squarely into a mustachioed villain while a startled woman in green looks on from the ship's rail behind him, a golden sword tumbling across the deck between them. The cover teaser asks what strange quirk of fate saves Captain Daring from the trap of the self-styled "Vulture of the Seas," Admiral Blood, in the story "Boomerang of Justice" — a promise of pirate intrigue that's hard to resist. Beyond the lead feature, the issue also boasts Adam Peril, Black Roger, Eric Falcon, and the Corsair Queen, making this a packed anthology of bounding-main adventure rendered with crisp energy by cover penciler Reed Crandall and inker Chuck Cuidera.