Captain Marvel... hypnotist? Yep. He "summons all his willpower to combat the accursed spell that weighs down Spy Smasher". The things you can do with... the Power of Atlas? The Wisdom of Solomon? You tell me!
Also, you're feeling very sleepy. Very sleepy indeed... When I count down from 3, you will awaken refreshed and think the following panel makes sense in terms of physics... 3... 2... 1...
Right?! Nothing wrong here!
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I was reading some 1941 Captain Marvel last night(and some late 70's Shazam, for that matter) and noted how jolly darn slick the artwork was compared to some of its contemporaries. Could this be why it was even more popular than Supes at the time?
I would almost compare it to Tintin. The stories weren't as polished, but the adventures, the humour and the artwork... niiiice!!!
The 70's one was the story about the future earth populated by giant rats and I remembered how the artwork cast such a glamour on me as a 7 or 8 year old... exTREMELY slick. It was nice to remember those sensations. I think it may have been true love...
I read that, when Carl Barks was doing Scrooge McDuck comics, he tried very hard to end each page on a joke or at least something that made it worth getting to the bottom of the page. I don't know if old CM comics followed that rule, but attention-getting stuff would happen frequently enough that you didn't find yourself waiting to get to "the good part" very often.
It's possibly a pattern we'd see a lot of if looking for it. I know I was influenced a lot by one page serials, specifically Russ Manning and the Goodwin/Williamson stuff. It feels good to have something worthwhile at the end of every page.