Feature Comics #134

From Quality Comics' long-running anthology comes this May 1949 issue spotlighting Doll Man versus "The Puppet Underworld" — and Bill Ward's cover sells the premise brilliantly. The tiny, cape-clad hero is bound with rope and dangled by an enormous human hand like an actual marionette, while an unsettling cast of puppet-themed menaces crowds below: a leering clown, a turbaned figure brandishing a sword, a buckskin cowboy, and an elegantly dressed woman, all poised to close in. It's a wonderfully imaginative setup that plays Doll Man's diminutive scale for both drama and dark wit.