Master Comics #3

From 1940, this early Fawcett anthology showcases the sheer ambition of the "World's Biggest Comics Magazine" — and issue #3 delivers on that promise with a cover by Harry Fisk that pulls you straight into the action. Master Man tears open the hatch of an armored vehicle to rescue a bound woman inside, while a green-jacketed villain lurks in the foreground, gun in hand. Running down the right side are portraits of the book's supporting cast — Devil's Dagger, White Rajah, El Carim Master of Magic, Frontier Marshal, and Shipwreck Roberts — a reminder of just how much adventure is packed between these covers for fifteen cents.