Sensation Comics #36

H.G. Peter's cover for this December 1944 DC issue sets an wonderfully strange scene: Wonder Woman leans intently over a glowing scientific device while a sinister, disheveled figure crouches nearby manipulating its controls — and from the machine rises a swirling procession of ghostly, disembodied villain heads. Billed right on the cover as "Parade of the Villains," the image promises a story packed with adversaries, written by Charles Moulton. It's a genuinely arresting piece of Golden Age cover art that captures the imaginative, anything-goes energy that made Sensation Comics such a standout title of the era.