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Issue Details

Issue #10
Published July 1942
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 68
Editing Whitney Ellsworth

Cover Details - "Once again the Newsboy Legion and the Guardian battle and smash through another whirlwind action-adventure for your enjoyment!"

Characters The Guardian [Jim Harper]; The Newsboy Legion [Big Words [Anthony Rodriguez]; Gabby [Jonathan Gabrielli]; Scrapper [Patrick MacGuire]; Tommy Thompkins]; Nick Cappa (villain)
Genre superhero
Pencils Jack Kirby [as Kirby] (signed)
Inks Joe Simon [as Simon] (signed)
Colors Jack Kirby
Notes Cover colorist credits from Greg Theakston, via the GCD Error List (2008-4-5).
Reprinted in Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen (DC, 1954 series) #144; in Newsboy Legion by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby, The (DC, 2010 series) #1

13 page The Newsboy Legion story "Kings for a Day"

Characters The Guardian [Jim Harper]; The Newsboy Legion [Tommy Thompkins; Big Words [Anthony Rodriguez]; Gabby [Jonathan Gabrielli]; Scrapper [Patrick MacGuire]; Mark Mangle (villain)
Synopsis The Newsboy Legion is selected to take over the position of several city officials for a day. Mark Mangle and his mob plan to take advantage of that day to commit several crimes, that the Newsboys stop.
Genre superhero
Script Joe Simon (signed); Jack Kirby (signed)
Pencils Jack Kirby (signed)
Inks Joe Simon (signed)
Letters Howard Ferguson
Reprinted in Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen (DC, 1954 series) #144 (December 1971)

13 page The Star-Spangled Kid story "The Education of East-Side Eggbert"

Characters The Star-Spangled Kid [Sylvester Pemberton]; Stripesy [Pat Dugan]; East-Side Eggbert
Genre superhero
Script Jerry Siegel
Pencils Hal Sherman
Inks Hal Sherman

8 page The Tarantula story "Four on a Web"

Characters The Tarantula [John Law]
Genre superhero
Pencils Harold Sharp
Inks Harold Sharp

6 page Penniless Palmer story "Case of the Petrified Poet"

Characters Penniless Palmer
Genre humor
Script Whitney Ellsworth ?
Pencils Kosti Ruohomaa [as Kosti] (signed)
Inks Kosti Ruohomaa [as Kosti] (signed)
Notes Artist identified by Ilpo Lagerstedt (October, 2006)

8 page TNT and Dan the Dyna-Mite story "Case of the Spendthrift Miser"

Characters TNT [Thomas N. Thomas]; Dan [Daniel Dunbar]
Genre superhero
Pencils Louis Cazeneuve
Inks Louis Cazeneuve

10 page Robotman story "The Murder Master"

Characters Robotman [Robert Crane, aka Paul Dennis]; Chuck Grayson; Murder Master [Carl Denton](villain)
Synopsis Robotman has to discover why his friend and lab assistant, Chuck Grayson, is trying to murder him, and learns that the man behind the plot was an inventor once sent to prison by Paul Dennis for stealing one of his inventions.
Genre superhero
Script Jerry Siegel
Pencils Sam Citron
Inks George Roussos
Notes Credits via Craig Delich, inker identification by Bob Hughes (March, 2005). Penciller identification based on correspondence between Whitney Ellsworth and Jerry Siegel, 1942.