The Spirit #17

The Spirit's masked face looms large and watchful over a Central Bank night-deposit box, while a suspicious organ grinder in a garish yellow-and-red polka-dot outfit lingers nearby — cash and a bag of loot spilling conspicuously at his feet. Young Ebony, red-coated and wide-eyed, rounds out the scene with a look of alarm that says trouble is very much afoot. Will Eisner's cover art sets a wonderfully moody, street-level stage for "The Organ Grinder," one of the sharper entries in this 1949 Quality Comics run that newspapers across the country were already following every week.