Joe Louis #1

The issue chronicles Joe Louis's rise from factory worker to heavyweight boxing champion. The main story depicts how Jack Blackburn discovered Louis's potential and trained him, with Louis working at the Ford assembly plant while maintaining his boxing discipline at Brewster Center. The narrative follows Louis's early fights in April-May 1935 and his move to New York, where he encounters legendary fighters and prepares for his championship aspirations. A secondary feature, "The Champion Who Lost" by William W. Woolfolk, recounts the historic fight between Jim Corbett and Jim Jeffries, describing their twenty-five round bout in detail and Corbett's eventual victory over the previously undefeated Jeffries.