Captain Marvel Adventures #123

Only a Fawcett comic from 1951 could serve up something this delightfully unexpected: Captain Marvel, in his red-and-gold uniform, single-handedly managing a full-on dinosaur farm while a massive prehistoric creature chomps at a feeding trough overhead and smaller reptiles snap and lunge around his boots. C. C. Beck's cover art brings a breezy confidence to the chaos — the World's Mightiest Mortal looks more put-upon than panicked, which makes the whole scene even more charming. "Captain Marvel and the Dinosaur Dilemma" promises exactly the kind of imaginative, good-humored adventure that made this series a staple of early 1950s comics.