Cops Shooting at Fleeing Suspects:
The Raven, a nonviolent thief who crucial only steals ill-gotten gains from the wealthy and powerful, draws a lot of police fire over the course of his activities. (Sure-Fire Comics 002, 1940)
Treasury agent blazes away at a fleeing diamond smuggler in the middle of NYC. (Target Comics v1 004, 1940)
A Good Line to Exit A Burning Building With:
Especially if you have no intention of being a waffle. (Sure-Fire Comics 002, 1940)
Insufficiently Advanced:
This "aging machine" has to be the most low-rent bit of alien tech ever featured in any bit of fiction. Just locking someone up for fifty years isn't a particularly impressive feat of extraterrestrial engineering, so-called King of the Brainmen. (Sure-Fire Comics 003b, 1940)
The March of Progress:
A fun exercise in just how recent the Satanic Panic and its preoccupations were: this puzzle, in which a goat-man demonstrates how to draw an inverted pentagram, is presented as a fun activity for kids, something that would have caused an American parent from c.1987 to spontaneously combust with the speed at which they would have been travelling to contact the authorities/the news media/the evangelical church. (Famous Funnies 054, 1939)
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