Captain Marvel Adventures #97

This June 1949 Fawcett gem delivers one of the most inventive cover concepts of its era: a giant real-life hand clutching an eraser bears down on a baffled Captain Marvel — rendered in his red-and-gold costume by cover artist C. C. Beck — as the hero exclaims "Holy Moley! What goes on?" The playful collision of a photographic prop with Beck's crisp illustrated figure makes the threat feel simultaneously absurd and genuinely unsettling. With the bold promise that Captain Marvel "is wiped out," this issue is a delightful reminder of how imaginatively Fawcett could blur the line between the comic page and the real world.