Captain Midnight #46

Captain Midnight surges toward the reader in full flight on this November 1946 Fawcett cover — his orange suit, blue gloves, and aviator goggles capturing everything that makes this "Champion of the Cloudbanks" such an enduring figure, while an aircraft streaks through the explosive yellow sky behind him. Leonard Frank's bold linework gives the whole image a propulsive energy that lives up to the cover's promise of "pulverizing action." Inside, the story "Captain Midnight Drills for Oil" hints at adventure that takes our hero from the skies to the earth below.