Pep Comics (1940)
Published
Pep Comics #1, MLJ, January 1940
Fourteen months before Captain America, the Shield was already wearing the flag. Irv Novick's cover sends the first patriotic superhero smashing through a squad of robots, chest emblem front and center. The same issue introduced Jack Cole's the Comet. MLJ later became Archie Comics, and Archie himself would arrive in this very title in 1941.
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