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Issue Details

Issue #142
Published October 1971
Frequency Monthly (semi-montly August)
Cover Price 0.25 USD
Pages 52
Editing Jack Kirby; E. Nelson Bridwell

Cover Details

Characters Superman [Clark Kent]; Jimmy Olsen; Lupek; Count Dragorin
Genre superhero
Pencils Jack Kirby (signed)
Inks Neal Adams; Mike Royer
Reprinted in Jimmy Olsen: Adventures by Jack Kirby (DC, 2003 Series) #2; in Jack Kirby's Fourth World Omnibus (DC, 2007 series) #2

22 page Jimmy Olsen story "The Man from Transilvane!"

Characters Lupek; Count Dragorin; Laura Conway; Superman [Clark Kent]; Jimmy Olsen; the Newsboy Legion [Tommy; Flipper-Dipper; Scrapper, Jr.; Gabby, Jr.; Big-Words]; Scrapper Trooper
Synopsis Superman and Jimmy face a seeming vampire, while the Newsboy Legion pursues a lead to finding the killer of the original Jim Harper.
Genre superhero
Script Jack Kirby
Pencils Jack Kirby; Murphy Anderson (Superman and Jimmy Olsen heads)
Inks Vince Colletta
Notes Jimmy Olsen & Superman heads redrawn by Murphy Anderson.
Reprinted in Mighty Comic (K. G. Murray, 1960 series) #98; in Jimmy Olsen: Adventures by Jack Kirby (DC, 2003 Series) #2; in Jack Kirby's Fourth World Omnibus (DC, 2007 series) #2

1 page Jimmy Olsen's Pen-Pals letters page

Script E. Nelson Bridwell
Letters typeset
Notes Includes a letter from Bob Rozakis.

2 page Strange Stories of the D.N.A. Project story "Hairie Secrets Revealed!!!"

Characters Jude; The Haries
Synopsis Short tour of The Mountain of Judgment.
Genre superhero
Script Jack Kirby
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Vince Colletta
Reprinted in Jimmy Olsen: Adventures by Jack Kirby (DC, 2003 Series) #2

1 page Newsboy Legion cover reprint (on interior page) "Star Spangled Comics #8"

Characters Guardian [Jim Harper]; The Newsboy Legion [Big Words [Anthony Rodriguez]; Gabby [Jonathan Gabrielli]; Scrapper [Patrick MacGuire]; Tommy Thompkins]
Genre Superhero
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Joe Simon
Reprinted from Star Spangled Comics (DC, 1941 series) #8

13 page Newsboy Legion story "Last Mile Alley"

Characters Guardian [Jim Harper]; The Newsboy Legion [Big Words [Anthony Rodriguez]; Gabby [Jonathan Gabrielli]; Scrapper [Patrick MacGuire]; Tommy Thompkins]; Black Leo Lucas; Frisco; River Rats [Larry] (gang); The Big Boss; Trigger
Synopsis The Newsboys decide to peddle their papers in some of the worst sections of Suicide Slum, leading to three of them being captured by crooks working for the Big Boss. Guardian has to rescue them, with the help of Big Words, the only Newsboy to not be captured.
Genre superhero
Script Jack Kirby; Joe Simon
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Joe Simon
Letters Howard Ferguson
Reprinted from Star Spangled Comics (DC, 1941 series) #8