Star Spangled Comics #60

This September 1946 DC issue of Star Spangled Comics poses a tantalizing question right on its cover: what happens when a member of the Newsboy Legion becomes "Steve Brodie the 2nd"? Penciled by Curt Swan and inked by Stan Kaye, the cover delivers a vivid waterfront scene — a masked hero looks on as boys scramble around a partially submerged vessel, one kid leaping dramatically from a dock while alarmed onlookers react from the shore. It's a lively, action-packed snapshot of the street-level adventure that made this series such a treat in the postwar years.