Star Spangled Comics #37

From October 1944, this DC wartime anthology crackles with energy as The Guardian — in his distinctive blue-and-gold costume — leaps into action among industrial machinery, gun drawn, while the scrappy Newsboy Legion kids scramble around him amid the mechanical chaos. Jack Kirby's cover pencils bring a kinetic, street-level vitality to the scene, and the issue is packed with even more: Star-Spangled Kid, Penniless Palmer, Liberty Belle, and Robotman all share the bill. A ten-cent slice of 1944 DC at its most spirited.