The key thing about this Pep cover?
It's not crypto-phallic. At all.
Now, if only that giant receptacle were sloshing out some yellowish liquid, we'd have a call-back to the ureatic cover of issue No. 2: "I'll just toss these Nordicans into that briny stream with this industrial silt scoop -- sorry for the dunking, boys!" Yeah, then we'd have something.
Still it has that lenticular 5D action we noted on an earlier cover. Keep your transquartomuralistic Kirby-punch covers, you dead-souled Marvelites who need a punch in the face in order to feel anything! We introspective Golden Agers like to lose ourselves in the endless recesses of Pep covers an its action detective adventure.
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Actually...actually, that really isn't a bad pose! But I'm really fascinated by the guy in the air over the Shield's head and shoulder. THAT'S a heck of an ass shot! Gil Kane would have been proud of that.
I'd count my blessings. Better crypto-phallic than Krypto-phallic.
Nice use of one of those giant pavement-chainsaw thingies in the background, too. Don't see them nearly often enough on comic covers.
G-Man Extraordinary...
Doesn't quite have the ring of Super-Soldier does it?
Ah well... hey wait a minute! Whats with the ice spike in what looks like a warm day? (Lower-right corner.)
Did the shield make that so he could impale these guys... or do they randomly appear in the what I presume are the Alps?
I believe that's a splash of water from the guy that's about to land in the water.
On a Shield cover time flows in both directions at once.
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