Sub-Mariner Comics #19

This Spring 1946 issue of Sub-Mariner Comics plunges Namor into urban mayhem, with the cover by Allen Simon depicting the bare-chested Atlantean prince surging up through a city street amid capsizing vehicles, scattered crates, and a crowd of scrambling bystanders caught in the watery chaos. A star-shaped inset in the upper right spotlights The Angel, signaling that Namor isn't the only hero on hand for whatever criminal scheming "The Wizard of Crime" has set in motion. At a dime a copy, this Golden Age gem captures the larger-than-life energy that made Timely's aquatic anti-hero one of the era's most compelling figures.