Today in Comics History, January 8: And a lust for gold, and a lust for gold / Keeps us alive, keeps us alive

from "Leland Stanford: Railroad Pioneer of the West" in Real Life Comics #11 (Pines, May, 1943), pencils and inks by Maurice Gutwirth
I have cut the flashback off at this point because in the very next panel there is some pretty foul racism. Sigh. Oh, comics, will you never learn?