Captain Midnight #26

Captain Midnight faces a genuinely unsettling encounter in this 1944 Fawcett entry, as the red-and-blue-suited hero confronts a glowing, ghostly white figure inside a cobweb-draped room dominated by a towering grandfather clock. A shadowy green figure lurks in the corner while a sleek aircraft streaks across the sky above the title, setting an atmosphere that lives up to the cover's bold promise: "Hotel of Horror!" At a dime a copy, issue #26 delivers the kind of eerie pulp thrills that made Captain Midnight a standout of wartime comics.