One Panel #593: Bondage, It's Not Just in Wonder Woman Comics

From Crimson Avenger: "The Daily Crime" by Jack Lehti and Paul Norris, Detective Comics #63 (May 1942)

Sensation is only at issue 5 and already Marston's bondage tropes are catching on?!

I'm kidding, of course. It is the role of the pulp hero to be hit upside the head and tied up. It's just that... some crooks are better with knots than others...