Captain Marvel Adventures #143

This April 1953 Fawcett issue presents one of the more gloriously surreal cover scenarios of the era: a space-suited Captain Marvel gestures proudly toward a ten-mile-high stone portrait of his own face carved into the side of a moon mountain, while the diminutive Doc Quartz looks on from below, declaring it "wonderful!" C. C. Beck's cover art captures the Big Red Cheese at his most cheerfully self-assured, ray gun in hand, admiring his own lunar monument against a starry sky. It's the kind of imaginative, larger-than-life premise that made Captain Marvel Adventures such a joy throughout its Fawcett run.