Nyoka the Jungle Girl #22

Charlton's Nyoka the Jungle Girl returns in issue #22, promising "Danger… Thrills… in The Golden Snare!" — and the cover delivers on that promise, showing the cool-headed, leopard-print-clad Nyoka holding a pistol at her side while a painted warrior in a vivid feathered headdress advances with a blade, two more tribal figures closing in from the jungle behind him. It's a tense, atmospheric snapshot of the perils Nyoka faces in the wild, rendered against a lush green backdrop of tangled trees and broad leaves. At just ten cents, this 1948 Charlton publication offers the kind of adventure-packed pulp thrills that made jungle heroines a staple of mid-century comics.