Hangman Comics #2

From Spring 1942, Hangman Comics #2 delivers a cover by Harry Lucey that crackles with wartime energy — the masked, caped Hangman looms large against a stormy city skyline while, on the face of a towering clock, a figure clings desperately as a gun-toting villain lurks on the ledge below. The cover's bold tagline — "Gangland! Beware!! The Hangman Is Everywhere!!" — perfectly captures the vigilante menace radiating from every corner of this Archie ten-cent thrill. Inside, the Hangman squares off against the ominously named Captain Swastika, making this a genuinely charged artifact of Golden Age superhero comics at their most combative.