One Panel #238-240: The Action Car Gets Wings and Other Strangeness

From Zatara: "The Gringo Gang" by Gardner Fox and Fred Guardineer, Action Comics #28 (September 1940)

I know a lot of cars just looked like this in the 30s and 40s, but that green color harks back to the COVER of Action Comics #1, given wings to complete its flight after Superman's iconic lift. It probably has NOTHING to do with that, but I still like the visual rhyme.

From Hawkman: "The Creatures from the Canyon" by Gardner Fox and Sheldon Moldoff, Flash Comics #9 (September 1940)

Why, o why would you set a Hawkman story UNDERWATER? Not only is the glass jar helmet silly, but it's the technical definition of a fish out of water (you know what I mean). Aquaman was still years away. Somebody should have gotten on that sooner.

From The Spectre "The Arsonist" by Jerry Siegel and Bernard Baily, More Fun Comics #58 (August 1940)

And in our final WTF moment for the day, here's a shot of the all-powerful Spectre getting thrown out of a window and falling on his ass. Oh, the out-of-character indignity!