Captain Marvel Jr. #109

This May 1952 Fawcett issue puts Captain Marvel Jr. in a wonderfully odd predicament — looming large in the sky above a mountain landscape while a gang of club-wielding giants forcibly escorts a small blonde figure away, snarling "Puny weakling! We banish you from Giant Land!" The cover by Bud Thompson sets up a delightful paradox with the story title "Captain Marvel Jr. and the World's Littlest Giant," pairing the boy hero's trademark blue-and-gold costume against a world where even the smallest giant dwarfs ordinary humanity. At just a dime, this issue offers the kind of imaginative, high-concept adventure that made Fawcett's superhero line such a joy in the early 1950s.