Gwandanaland Comics #2290

This Gwandanaland treasury collects material spotlighting Midnight, the blue-suited, goggled hero whose dynamic cover presence here — riding atop a sleek red rocket ship streaking through a star-lined orbit — captures the sheer fun of late Golden Age comics. A crescent moon, cratered planetoids, and a trio of small Martian figures on the lower right round out a wonderfully imaginative space scene signed by Jack Cole himself. At 52 pages of collected adventure, A Jack Cole Treasury: Volume 3 is a generous dive into the inventive, playful storytelling that made Smash Comics a standout title of its era.