Nice summation ak!

Yeah, you can definitely see the prototype of DC's infamous split personality that would debut a couple of years later - the demonic image emerging from the hero, even the alter ego being stymied by a flare!

Very eerie foreshadowing!

Great review!

"As for contentment, that is a myth.  Give a man everything he wishes and he will be unhappy, because he didn't wish for more; give him more, and he will die of his worries.  Only a turtle, asleep on a sunny log, knows contentment!"
-Merlin to Prince Valiant

            Hal Foster 3-7-43