Phantom Lady, issue 17

Sandra Knight is a Washington, D.C., socialite by day, but at night she dons a blue and red costume and uses her "black light projector" to fight crime and corruption. Fox Feature Syndicate didn't create the Phantom Lady—the character was taken from rival Quality Comics—but Matt Baker's "good girl art" made the character famous by giving the character a revealing costume with an extremely short skirt. The cover for Phantom Lady #17 (Apr 1949) is the character's most famous—or infamous—appearance. The cover wound up in "Seduction of the Innocent," the 1954 book by Dr. Fredric Wertham that accused the comic book industry of morally corrupting the youth of America. In 1986 Alan Moore would use the Phantom Lady as inspiration for the Silk Spectre in his critically acclaimed series "Watchmen."