Captain Marvel Jr. #78

From Fawcett's October 1949 lineup comes this genuinely unsettling entry in the Captain Marvel Jr. series, with cover art by Kurt Schaffenberger. The cover puts our blue-and-gold hero face-to-face with a menacing masked figure wielding a staff, a great clock adorned with grinning skulls looming in the background amid leaping flames — and the villain's threat, "When the clock strikes, you will cease to exist, Captain Marvel Jr.!!" hangs in the air with real dramatic weight. Dubbed "The Voodoo Clock" right on the cover itself, this issue promises the kind of eerie, imaginative peril that made Fawcett's superhero titles such a standout in 1949 comics.