Captain Marvel Adventures #106

The World's Mightiest Mortal" streaks through the starry void on this striking 1950 Fawcett cover, with Captain Marvel arcing powerfully past a cratered, rocket-skewered Moon while Earth hangs small in the distance below — C. C. Beck's clean, confident linework making the cosmic scale feel both grand and thrillingly immediate. The cover announces "Captain Marvel Fights the Menace of the Moon," promising an adventure that takes the Big Red Cheese well beyond Earth's atmosphere. With a generous 52 pages for just a dime, this March issue is a wonderful snapshot of superhero comics at their most earnestly adventurous.