Star Spangled Comics #44

From the wartime pages of DC's Star Spangled Comics comes issue #44, cover-dated May 1945 — and the cover by Arturo Cazeneuve sets the scene with real energy. A blue-costumed, yellow-helmeted hero sits confidently at center, gripping what appears to be a wooden club, while a group of street kids — the Newsboy Legion — clusters behind him, one clutching a paper marked "Confession." The bold promise of "Another Action-Packed Newsboy Legion Story!" says it all: if you were following these scrappy kids through Suicide Slum in 1945, this is exactly the kind of cover that made ten cents feel well spent.