Star Spangled Comics #49

This October 1945 DC offering packs a full 52 pages of action headlined by the Newsboy Legion and the Guardian, and Curt Swan and Steve Brodie's cover captures the scrappy spirit of both perfectly. The Newsboy Legion boys are going fists-first against a pair of rough-looking adults — one of whom is bound with rope — while "Boom! Boom!" sound effects punctuate the brawl, and the blue-and-gold Guardian looms in the background, ready to leap into the fray. At just ten cents, this wartime-era issue delivers the kind of street-level heroics that made Star Spangled Comics such a lively corner of the DC lineup in 1945.