More Fun Comics #47

From September 1939, this 10-cent package from DC promises a full 64 pages of laughs and thrills — and the cover by Fred Guardineer delivers on the "thrills" promise immediately. A roaring lion clutches a figure in a leopard-skin garment while a rifle-toting hunter in a wide-brimmed hat takes aim from the background, the whole scene set against a sweeping open savanna. It's a punchy, kinetic image that captures the adventure-serial energy that made More Fun Comics a standout anthology of its era.