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Issue Details

Issue #19
Published April 1943
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 68
Editing Whitney Ellsworth (credited); Jack Schiff (actual)

Cover Details - "The Newboy Legion smashes through a surprise feature that you'll never forget!"

Characters The Guardian [Jim Harper]; The Newsboy Legion: [Tommy Tompkins; Big Words [Anthony Rodriguez]; Gabby [Jonathan Gabrielli]; Scrapper [Patrick MacGuire]]; the Nazis
Genre superhero
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Joe Simon
Colors Jack Kirby
Notes Cover colors credit from Greg Theakston, via the GCD Error List (2008-4-5).
Reprinted in Newsboy Legion by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby, The (DC, 2010 series) #1

13 page The Newsboy Legion story "The Fuehrer of Suicide Slum"

Characters The Guardian [Jim Harper]; The Newsboy Legion: [Tommy Tompkins; Big Words [Anthony Rodriguez]; Gabby [Jonathan Gabrielli]; Scrapper [Patrick MacGuire]]; Mrs. Bloom; Gas-House (villain, young Bund member); the Nazis (villains)
Synopsis While Scrapper calmly sleeps, the Legion members have a run-in with a young Bund member, who swears to get even. The next thing Scrapper knows, he is awoken by a group of Nazis and he discovers that New York City has been taken over by the Germans, and that the Legion and the Guardian have been sentenced to death!
Genre superhero
Script Joe Simon (signed); Jack Kirby (signed)
Pencils Jack Kirby (signed)
Inks Arturo Cazeneuve [as Joe Simon] (signed)
Letters Howard Ferguson
Reprinted in Newsboy Legion by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby, The (DC, 2010 series) #1

13 page The Star Spangled Kid story "Too Fat to Fight"

Characters The Star Spangled Kid [Sylvester Pemberton]; Stripesy {Pat Dugan]
Genre superhero
Pencils Hal Sherman
Inks Hal Sherman

8 page Tarantula story "Me, Gangster"

Characters Tarantula [John Law]
Genre superhero

6 page Penniless Palmer story "Case of the Prince of Pennies"

Characters Pennliness Palmer
Genre humor
Pencils Stan Kaye
Inks Stan Kaye

7 page TNT and Dan the Dyna-Mite story "Power Is Where You Find It"

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

10 page Robotman story "King for a Day"

Characters Robotman [Robert Crane aka Paul Dennis]
Genre superhero
Script Jerry Siegel
Pencils Ed Dobrotka
Inks Ed Dobrotka
Notes Credits supplied by Craig Delich (March, 2005).