Super Comics #77

This October 1944 Dell anthology packs a remarkable roster under one dime, bringing together Dick Tracy, Orphan Annie, Clyde Beatty, Moon Mullins, and Brenda Starr — with strip characters also previewed in the header panels featuring Smitty, Tiny Tim, Harold Teen, and Winnie Winkle. The cover itself is a warm, almost jovial scene: Dick Tracy in his signature yellow hat shakes hands with a broadly smiling young girl in a red beret, while a cheerful fellow in a green suit and yellow hat looks on approvingly against a glowing orange-red background. For readers in 1944, this kind of all-star comics package was genuinely hard to beat at ten cents.