Venus #6

From Marvel's 1949 "Romantic Tales of Fantasy" series, Venus #6 features a striking cover by Syd Shores in which the white-gowned, silver-haired Goddess of Love towers over a startled mortal man amid a cosmic backdrop of stars and planets, while a crowd of tiny figures scrambles chaotically across the clouds below them. The starburst caption promises "The Wrath of a Goddess!" — and the tension between Venus's imperious gesture and the man's wide-eyed alarm makes it easy to believe the entire Earth hangs in the balance. A wonderfully imaginative ten-cent package blending romance and fantasy in the grand Marvel tradition of 1949.