Gwandanaland Comics #490

Frank Thomas' pulpy creation gets a handsome collected showcase in this 2019 Gwandanaland Comics volume dedicated entirely to Doctor Hypno. The cover reproduces vintage comic art across three panels: a shadowy nighttime encounter with silhouetted figures looming over a bed, followed by a tense confrontation where turbaned Mystic Knights of Bagdad brandish a pistol and demand the bewildered Doctor come with them, and finally a dramatic struggle as one character raises his hands in defiance. It's a terrific sampler of the strip's adventure-mystery atmosphere, and "The Case of the Insane Mystic Knights of Bagdad" promises exactly the kind of exotic, fast-moving intrigue that made Golden Age comics so irresistible.