Doll Man #41

This August 1952 Quality Comics issue pits "The World's Mightiest Mite" against one of folklore's most chilling figures, as the cover shows a headless horseman — his severed, grimacing head clutched aloft — charging a black stallion directly toward the tiny, caped Doll Man and a screaming woman in the foreground. Reed Crandall's artwork brings real menace to the scene, the bare winter trees and lurid pink sky amplifying the eerie atmosphere promised by the cover's bold proclamation: "Weird…Eerie…The Headless Horseman!" It's a wonderfully atmospheric clash of superhero action and classic horror that captures everything inventive about early 1950s comics storytelling.