Okay Comics Weekly (Boardman Oct. 1937) - Mort Leav/Will Eisner - featuring Myra North, Special Nurse

Here is one of the earliest known Golden Age covers - from Eisner & Iger, likely laid out by Eisner but finished by Mort Leav for OKAY COMICS WEEKLY run by Thomas Volney Boardman. TV Boardman was Eisner & Iger's second customer following on the heels of their signing J.B. Powers and his Editors Press Service for their comic WAGS. Boardman, a partner of Powers, subsequently started OKAY COMICS WEEKLY.

Made in the USA and consisting of reprinted US comic news strips plus a new Eisner & Iger cover. Here is #3 from v.1 from October 1937.

Mortimer "Mor" Leav started with Eisner & Iger doing work for both Powers and Boardman's comics. He worked on a number of Eisner & Iger features before moving on to other companies. He is considered to be the co-creator of the one of the earliest comic muck-monsters, The Heap (predating Man-Thing and Swamp Thing by decades). Leav served in WW II, returned to comics and later left for advertising.

In multiple interviews, Eisner stated that he drew or laid out these earlier covers. The only time we think he didn't do that for Leav was when Leav was directly swiping from the actual comic strip. This is based on (but not a swipe) from Myra North, Special Nurse.