Top Notch Laugh Comics #45

From MLJ's self-proclaimed "America's Funniest Comics!!" comes this May 1944 wartime humor gem, with cover art by Harry Sahle. The cover presents a picture-within-a-picture gag: a pair of hands holds up a photograph of the cheerful blonde Susie, dressed in red overalls and striking a lively pose on a factory floor surrounded by munitions crates marked "Explosives" — her boss's speech bubble declaring her a defense worker, while she quips she'll get a "bang" out of the job. It's a breezy, good-natured nod to the home-front spirit of 1944, perfectly suited to the lighthearted tone Top-Notch Laugh Comics delivered each month.