Hangman Comics #3

This Summer 1942 issue of Hangman Comics arrives with a cover by Harry Lucey that captures the all-out wartime intensity of the era — the masked Hangman tears into a group of Nazi and Axis enemies, landing a fierce blow on one swastika-emblazoned foe while his partner in a blue mask and red cape battles more adversaries in the background. A bound woman in the right corner and eerie figures floating in laboratory tanks to the left frame a scene brimming with pulpy, patriotic urgency. With interior art by Mort Leav and John Cassone and the story "Special Case No. 7: The Executioner," this is a vivid snapshot of Golden Age superhero comics at their most combative.