Star Spangled Comics #4

From January 1942, this DC ten-center packs three complete adventures of the Star-Spangled Kid into one colorful package. Hal Sherman's cover captures the duo in mid-brawl — the star-spangled Kid and his partner Stripesy tumbling through a nighttime urban setting as a gun-wielding villain looms over them, with a dramatic burst of impact light flashing between the combatants. The cover copy promises a startling new enemy, "The Needle," directing darts of doom at our heroes, making this a genuinely lively slice of early-'40s patriotic adventure comics.