Four Color #20

Barney Baxter takes to the skies in this 1943 Dell four-color adventure, delivering 68 full-color pages of wartime action at just a dime. The cover by Frank Miller drops readers right into the cockpit alongside Barney and his white-bearded companion as their camouflage fighter tears through a sky crowded with enemy aircraft bearing swastika markings — explosions and anti-aircraft bursts erupting all around them. It's a vivid snapshot of the aerial thrills that made this strip a natural fit for the homefront comics audience of the era.