Four Color #2

From 1939, this early Dell Four Color entry brings the naval adventure hero Don Winslow to vivid life on a cover that drops readers straight into peril — a figure in a blue shirt clings to a life preserver in dark, churning waters, one arm raised desperately toward a searchlight beam cutting across the sea from a looming warship in the distance. A framed portrait of a uniformed naval officer anchors the upper corner, underscoring the military stakes of F. V. Martinek and Leon A. Beroth's story, "Doctor Centaur's Plot." It's a tense, atmospheric scene that captures exactly the kind of high-seas danger that made Don Winslow of the Navy such a compelling read in the golden age of comic books.