Exciting Comics #63

Exciting Comics #63 from Pines brings a burst of Golden Age energy with this striking September 1948 cover by Alex Schomburg — a fierce, red-haired woman leaps forward clutching a knife while a rope coils around her, as a pith-helmeted man in the background holds the other end of the lasso against a lush jungle backdrop. The tension between the two figures crackles right off the page, and Schomburg's vivid, dynamic composition makes it easy to see why his covers were so sought after in their day. Inside, Ralph Mayo handles the art on "Laughing Hyena!" — one of the adventures of the Black Terror, billed right at the top as the "Nemesis of Crime.