I was watching the opening of Annie Hall recently, and was immediately distracted by a comic book Woody Allen’s character Alvy Singer is seen reading in a flashback. Distracted because, whenever I see a comic in a movie or on TV, I’m immediately overcome by a desire to know what that comic is, and whether it’s real or merely a prop mocked up for the screen.

Sometimes it’s the latter, as when a kid in a 1975 episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show was reading an issue of The Fantastic Blob. But often the comics are real, which I know because I’ve been able to track those issues down, such as The Eternals in a 2010 episode of Law & Order, Justice Society of America in a 2012 episode of Alcatraz, or Saga of the Human Torch in a 2013 episode of Revolution.

So when a comic book guest-starred in Annie Hall, I had to know—was the comic book real, and if so which comic was it? (Of course, the other question is, why hadn’t I noticed this before? But let’s set that one aside for another time.)

Here’s the issue spread open in a screen grab.

I can’t seem to find anyone else online who attempted to figure this out. I’m hoping now that I’m asking the question, perhaps you can figure it out.

The script doesn’t name the comic, as the stage directions only say, “Alvy as a child sits at the table eating soup and reading a comic book while his father sits on the sofa reading the paper.”

We don’t get the exact year this is happening, only the statement in a voiceover that, “I was brought up in Brooklyn during World War II.”

And no clues are given within the film itself as to genre of comic book, though a description of a deleted scene reveals that when young Alvy skips school by pretending to be sick, a cousin “looks after him by reading war comic books to him.”

So there you have it. Any experts out there in World War II-era war comics who can look at the open issue above and recognize from the configuration of panels what Alvy Singer is reading?