[positronic1]

A better question might be "Why did they put a pirate comic cover on a comic book made up of reprints of Top-Notch/Laugh comics?" It's almost as if this was trying to evade someone's radar by putting a totally unrelated cover on a different comic book. Pity any poor sap who bought this without flipping through it first, a sure setup for bitter disappointment. And what's up with that Akron, Ohio address in the indicia? Something's not quite kosher here... Or was there some kind of mix-up at the printing plant, where the wrong cover got stapled on to the comic? At any rate, I doubt very much that you'll find these same ads in any *genuine* 1945 Archie Comic Publications.

Link to the book: Black Swan Comics 1