The Spirit #19

The Spirit's masked face dominates this January 1950 Quality Comics cover in striking close-up, his blue domino mask and steely gaze filling nearly the entire left half of the image — while to the right, a menacing eagle-headed figure looms over a scrambling man in a green suit fleeing a yellow streetcar. Will Eisner packs remarkable value into a single dime, promising three complete Spirit stories — "The Man Who Murdered the Spirit," "The Case of the Balky Buzzard," and "Carrion's Rock" — plus backup features Flatfoot Burns and Jonesy. It's a confident, imaginative package that captures everything that made Eisner's masked crimefighter a newspaper sensation followed by millions every week.