The Human Torch #16

A striking piece of 1944 wartime comics art, this Fall issue features cover work by Alex Schomburg showing the Human Torch — a blazing, flame-trailed figure — streaking through a chaotic aerial assault on a "Tokio Oil Refinery," with explosions erupting across the industrial complex below. Soldiers scatter in every direction as a second fiery form spirals in behind him, making the cover feel genuinely kinetic and alive. A corner inset also promises a Sub-Mariner story inside, rounding out what looks to be a full package of Marvel's golden-age heavyweights at their wartime peak.