Gwandanaland Comics #219

This 2017 Gwandanaland Comics collection reprints Midnight's adventures from Smash Comics #18–54, and the reproduced cover of issue #44 sets the mood perfectly — a sharp-dressed, dark-masked hero crouches ready for action while a wild-haired, wide-eyed companion hollers that they're in "an awful spot." A small spotted dog rounds out the trio, adding an unexpected bit of charm to the tension on those steps. Alex Kotzky's cover art, with its clean linework and confident figures, captures exactly the kind of pulpy, fast-moving energy that made Quality Comics such a treat, and this volume also packs in stories featuring The Jester, Lady Luck, Yankee Eagle, The Marksman, and more.