“Answers, Inc.” ?!? I always thought the news was about “Questions, Inc.” –!

I guess “The Newsboy Legion” was ahead of their time, and leads the way for the modern Main Stream Media. Or it could be that the boys and “The Guardian” live in an alternate universe with different rules for architecture, gravity, dodging bullets from Tommy Guns, etc.

“What do you goons want?”

“We’re existentialist philosophers, and we gots ourselves a nice racket dealin’ in unanswerable cosmic questions. Now youse newsboys come in here wit dis ‘Answers Ink’ and tretten ta put us outta business. Just fer dat, we’re gonna fill ya fulla lead.”

“Look on da bright side. Leat you’ll get ta know fer sure if dere’s an afterlife er not!”

What the hell is with these gangsters? They escape from a traveling mafia freak show? And now we know why the little comic relief news guy knows so many wisecracks — he looks about 55 here, and hard time it was, too.

OK – this is what happens when the Guardian goes directly from the men’s room to the crime scene – and forgets to zip up.

Apparently some sort of old age ray was used on one of the newsboys. I’m guessing the well worn eraser on the Guardian’s head still needs some use.

I dunno. Maybe it’s me, but The Guardian’s head looks like it has a reservoir tip.

He’s wearing his Jimmy Cap.

Clearly these are the issues prior to the Guardian coming out as “Ace” and forming The Ambiguously Gay Duo

Is that Imus at the bottom in the droopy brown hat?

erik: “Is that Imus at the bottom in the droopy brown hat?”

Geez–he really _is_ as old as he looked on MSNBC. Imus & the late Wm F Buckley, Jr were the best two examples of people who looked like they were really escapees from Mme Tussaud’s & whose secret was given away by the fact that their faces were so obviously melting.

‘Tard-chitecture aside, I get the impression that The Guardian was either a complete coward, or a fall-drown drunk who had to be forcibly shoved into action.

The Guardian is the 1st superhero I’ve seen who does NOT have a flowing cape, but instead has attached to his arm a Union Pacific shield attached to his arm. And what use is that anyway? Why is Andy Capp running towards the mobster with the machine gun? I am happy that Guardian’s outfit does have ear holes for him.

Why are two of the mugs staring in horror at the Guardian’s crotch?

Nevermind–I don’t really want to know.

That’s not a newsboy. It’s MobDwarf, who was supposed to infiltrate the newsboys’ organization but betrayed his gang. That’s why they’re coming to pump him full of lead.

@MikeH The Guardian is the DC version of Captain America, the popular (cape-less, shield-carrying) hero Kirby created for Marvel ancestor Timely Comics. Cap’s original shield was shaped like a police badge; the flingable Frisbee-like one came later, and coincided with Cap’s eschewing a military-issue pistol.

The guy in the Guardian suit, rather than being a weakling buck private (as Captain America was before swilling experimental super-sauce), couldn’t serve in the military. I don’t recall his name, or whether/why he was 4-F. (Color blindness would explain the costume. Or perhaps his crazy-entrance trajectories are workarounds for painful fallen arches.) I also don’t know if Guardian had any superpowers, special weaponry, etc. aside from his suit. He must have at least had special dispensation from metal-collection drives, in order to forge that helmet of his.

At any rate, Guardian was the champion of the home front — teaming up with the too-young-to-serve Newsboy Legion to ferret out gangsters, fifth-columnists, ration-coupon counterfeiters, and the like.

It would appear that the Don Imus lookalike in the foreground recently opened the Ark of the Covenant, as his face is melting. Perhaps the Guardian was released as well?

“Quick! Shove the little guy at the mobsters! Maybe we can get away while they’re busy killing him!”

My goodness, Gabby of the Newsboy Legion aged so quickly! Or is that Gabby’s grandfather standing in for him?

Well, I think the Guardian’s super power is floating. Not flying, he can’t propel himself, he just has to wait for an errant breeze or a push from below. That’s why all the odd, overhead positions on the covers. He’s just hanging there like a pinata, hoping to be pushed or blown into the action. I do wonder why the blonde is trying to cover her eyes. Perhaps TG used his XL codpiece that day.

@MikeH

Well, you obviously don’t remember Captain America. Particularly when he was still using his first shield: http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/2/28079/921337-captain_america_first_appearance_super.jpg

GardenStat you beat me to it!
Well the blond chick is doing her best to pretend that all is well, nothing to see there…just moving along…