Movie Comics #3

A delightful 1939 DC time capsule, Movie Comics #3 promised readers "a full movie show" for just a dime — and the cover delivers that spirit in style, featuring a grinning Gene Autry waving his hat atop a rearing dark horse in a scene from Mexicali Rose. The cover, credited to Jack Adler, Sheldon Mayer, and Emery Gondor, frames that crowd-pleasing image against a bold red backdrop, with silhouetted theater-goers along the bottom reinforcing the cinematic atmosphere. Inside, the 64 full-color pages adapt no fewer than six films, including East Side of Heaven with Bing Crosby and Joan Blondell, Four Feathers, and The Mikado — making this a genuinely remarkable snapshot of Hollywood and comics intersecting at their liveliest.