Sub-Mariner Comics #27

This 1948 Timely Comics entry drops readers right into a tense outdoor standoff: Namora races barefoot toward a live electrical wire draped across a puddle while a sneering villain and his accomplices taunt her with an impossible choice — roll the wire away and save herself, or let a hostage pay the price. A gun-toting man in a hat and yellow shirt looms in the foreground, making the threat feel immediate and claustrophobic. Ken Bald's cover pencils frame the danger with real urgency, and the interior promises more of that pulpy, fast-moving energy with "The Case of the Frantic Fisherman!" waiting inside.