Master Comics #14

From Fawcett's wartime anthology comes this May 1941 issue of Master Comics, featuring a cover by Charles Sultan that puts Minute-Man front and center — swinging on a rope in his stars-and-stripes costume while clutching a blonde woman in distress, as enemy soldiers and a crashing motorcycle scatter in chaos below. The cover blurb promises "Minute-Man Swoops to the Rescue!", and Sultan's dynamic composition delivers exactly that energy, with the hero and woman cutting a dramatic diagonal against the action-packed lower scene. Inside, the anthology promises "The Becker Kidnap Plot" among its stories, making this a fine snapshot of early-'40s superhero adventure at its most spirited.