Pep Comics #13

Pep Comics #13 from 1941 delivers a genuinely thrilling cover by Irv Novick, showing the patriotically costumed Shield in the thick of a brawl against a gang of green-skinned villains in what appears to be an industrial setting — with a bound woman in the foreground and a bottle ominously labeled "prussic acid" nearby. Young Dusty, the Boy Detective, is also in the mix, tangling with the menacing horde as one of the creatures leaps dramatically through the air in the background. Billed as action, detective, and adventure all in one, this MLJ/Archie title was packing real excitement into its ten-cent pages.