Detective Comics #26

From April 1939, this issue of Detective Comics promises 64 pages of thrill-packed action for a dime. Fred Guardineer's cover sets an immediately tense scene: a uniformed officer sits alert at a radio console, while an ominous clawed shadow looms large on the wall behind him — danger closing in from an unseen threat. Inside, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster contribute "Artists of Death," a pairing that makes this a genuinely compelling artifact of comics' earliest days.