Real Fact Comics #20

This 1949 DC anthology brings real-world drama to the comics page, and the cover by Dan Barry pulls no punches — a badly burned, bandaged figure clings to a ladder amid roiling flames and smoke while a firefighter reaches to pull him to safety, with a shadowy figure looming in the foreground. The cover promises the inside story of how arson investigators track down firebugs, a genuinely gripping subject rendered here with striking urgency. Rounding out the package is a feature on the real Daniel Boone, making this 52-page issue a solid slice of mid-century factual comics at their most engagingly dramatic.