Top Notch Comics #21

From November 1941, this MLJ/Archie anthology brings together the Black Hood, the Wizard, and Roy the Super-Boy for a ten-cent thrill. Al Camy's cover crackles with energy — the yellow-and-black-clad Black Hood lunges forward in battle while a looming green-skinned villain with a skeletal grin towers menacingly overhead, his clawed hands reaching toward a woman in distress, as the Wizard and the young Roy charge into the fray below. With the story "The Animal Man Strikes" in the mix and Harvey Biern on writing duties, this issue delivers the kind of pulpy heroic action that made 1941 comics genuinely exciting.