Are Golden Age Comics Actually Any Good?

The one story that sticks in my mind - ALL THE WATER FROM THE EARTH IS DISAPPEARING INTO SPACE! Sub-Mariner, being the cranky bastard he is, is slightly miffed because everyone thinks he did it. (He's discussing this for a few panels w/ his fetching lady friend while wearing an orange sweater, BTW.) So, he travels to the Moon by busting a hole in a reservoir tank and riding the stream of water up into space. Turns out there are aliens that need the water temporarily to help them through some drought stuff; they plan to return the water to Earth once they're done, though. HOWEVER, now that S-M knows what's what, he wants to teach those puny land-dwellers a lesson and keep the water up there. Of course, being the brilliant bastard that he is, it only takes A WHOLE PAGE OR TWO for S-M to realize that his countrymen LIVE IN THE WATER and would thereby be kinda killed by keeping the water up there. So, he relents, and travels back to Earth via the water, and he grouses with his fetching lady friend.

Pluses: all this happens in only 8 pages, and Bill Everett (who I assume was drawring this) is FANTASTIC! If I can figure out how to extract a pic from a .cbr file (maybe screen capture?), I'll post a page of the art.
Minuses: just about everything else (like, does the "Sub" in "Sub-Mariner" stand for "sub-standard brain power"?)

I'm totally for delving into the Golden Age, if only for the art & the carrazy ideas. (Thank you B!tt0rr3nt!)

Blast you Skidmore and your dastardly xpost!

The ESA could use thinking like that.

That's okay; they can keep it.

(I shudder to think what'll happen when I post PATSY WALKER synopses here.)

IS it for IRRIGATION?

WHAT are the UREAL POSSIBILITIES of the mysterious INTERGALACTIC BEINGS' theft of THE WORLD'S WATER SUPPLY?

Find out next month, true believers, in an all new, all exciting, all daring issue of WHEN TITANS TINKLE.

The scene - Patsy Walker & Hedy Wolfe (newspaperwomen) are on their way to San Fran to interview Julian Fairlee, "the famous novelist". They're driving along (making great time thanks to this killer shortcut the "man at the garage" gave Hedy), but...

CAPTION: Then, DISASTER!

PATSY: We've come to a dead STOP! NOW what will we do? We're in the middle of NOWHERE!

HEDY: Beats me, Red! I KNEW I should have learned what all these kooky little dials on the dashboard mean! Oh DEAR...

PATSY: What IS it, Hedy?

CAPTION: You guessed it, gals!

OMG OMG OMG I turn the page, and...

HEDY: There WAS one thing I forgot to do! Cars don't run without gasoline ... do they?

PATSY: You didn't put GAS in the tank?? Hedy, how could you forget THAT?

HEDY: Well, I remembered everything ELSE!

Ah, Hedy.

Man, I remember readers sending in fashion designs and stuff, they must've done that in the Archie comics.

God, she looks like a First Lady in the pompadour one, but then on the right, she's auditioning for the role of Rachel Green!

So that'd be a no, basically.

I made a thread a long time ago about Golden Age Blue Beetle covers where he gradually became background to increasingly prominent foxy ladies.
here it is:
Superheroes Who Lost Their Covers to Hot Dames!