All-American Comics #54

A moonlit nighttime brawl fills this December 1943 DC anthology cover, as a masked, red-suited hero delivers a powerful punch to a heavyset villain who taunts him — "How do ya like me new 'Boomerang Coive,' Bud?" — while a swirling white ribbon curves dramatically around the combatants. To the left, a young sidekick in a yellow striped jacket looks on, and to the right a gunman fires but seems to catch the worst of it. Irwin Hasen's cover art crackles with kinetic energy, and inside, Bill Finger scripts "Crime Is an Art!" with Paul Reinman and Sam Burlockoff bringing it to life — a fine slice of wartime DC adventure for a dime.