Star Spangled Comics #2

Harold Sherman's cover for this November 1941 DC issue plunges readers straight into stratospheric chaos — the Star-Spangled Kid battles atop a wildly careening aircraft while Stripesy grapples with a figure clinging to the vehicle, another body tumbling away beneath it, all set against a vivid yellow sky dotted with stars and a ringed planet floating in the distance. The cover copy promises the duo will "invade the stratosphere to battle their old enemy — Dr. Weerd," and the swirling green vortex crackling around the plane makes that threat feel genuinely urgent. Three complete adventures of the Star-Spangled Kid at ten cents made this a remarkable value in 1941.