Captain Marvel Jr. #79

This November 1949 Fawcett issue delivers a delightfully offbeat cover by Kurt Schaffenberger, showing the blue-suited Captain Marvel Jr. mid-acrobatic spin as he tangles with a towering, yellow-coated sad-faced clown — and a drumhead at the bottom cheerfully announces "Captain Marvel Jr. Meets the Unhappy Clown!" The contrast between CMJ's confident grin and the clown's woeful expression gives the whole scene a charming, circus-sideshow energy. Inside, writer Otto Binder and artist Bud Thompson serve up the adventure "Captain Marvel Jr. Battles Anarchy!" — all 52 pages of it, at the classic ten-cent price.