Nyoka the Jungle Girl #28

Fawcett's long-running jungle adventure series delivers another pulse-quickening installment with this 1949 issue, promising "a complete serial of death-defying adventures" right on the cover. Nyoka herself stands center stage, knife in hand and alert in her red shorts and white shirt, deep within a shadowy, cave-like jungle thicket that closes in around her with an unmistakable sense of menace. With a story titled "The Human Statues of the Jungle, Part I: The Double Dare," this issue kicks off what sounds like a genuinely gripping multi-part mystery worthy of the famous Jungle Girl herself.