Green Hornet Comics #36

A cackling fortune-teller peers into a crystal ball — the Green Hornet's masked face staring back from within — while the masked hero himself leaps dramatically into the scene, gun drawn, to confront a crook clutching something red, all under the bold Harvey Comics banner of 1947. A bound blonde captive looks on from the left, adding urgency to this wonderfully pulpy tableau that captures everything thrilling about the Green Hornet's radio and movie fame translated to the page. Al Avison's cover work is sharp and kinetic, making issue #36 of Green Hornet Fights Crime a genuinely eye-catching snapshot of Golden Age comics at their most vivid.