Issue Details

Issue	#20
Published	May 1943
Cover Price	0.10 USD
Pages	68
Editing	Whitney Ellsworth (credited); Jack Schiff (actual)

Cover Details - "The Newsboys and the Champ!"

Characters	The Guardian [Jim Harper]; The Newsboy Legion: [Tommy Tompkins; Big Words [Anthony Rodriguez]; Gabby [Jonathan Gabrielli]; Scrapper [Patrick MacGuire]]; Zeke Potts
Genre	superhero
Pencils	Jack Kirby [as Kirby] (signed)
Inks	Joe Simon [as Simon] (signed)
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 Newsboys and the Champ"

Characters	The Guardian [Jim Harper]; The Newsboy Legion: [Tommy Tompkins; Big Words [Anthony Rodriguez]; Gabby [Jonathan Gabrielli]; Scrapper [Patrick MacGuire]]; Zeke Potts (fighter); Mike (restaurant owner); Tony (fruitstand owner); Max Lawlor (fight manager); Slugger Kane (boxer); Spike Dunphy (boxer)
Synopsis	The Legion gets their friend Zeke Potts a chance to fight in a championship match, but Zeke looks nothing like a fighter, and acts little like one until the Guardian gets a bright idea.
Genre	superhero
Script	Joe Simon (signed); Jack Kirby (signed)
Pencils	Jack Kirby [as Kirby] (signed)
Inks	Steve Brodie [as Joe Simon] (signed)
Letters	Howard Ferguson
Reprinted	in Newsboy Legion by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby, The (DC, 2010 series) #1

10 page The Star Spangled Kid story "Needle in the Haystack"

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

10 page Liberty Belle story "Belles of Liberty"

Characters	Liberty Belle [Libby Lawrence]
Genre	superhero
Script	Don Cameron
Pencils	Chuck Winter
Inks	Chuck Winter

6 page Penniless Palmer story "Case of the Capering Mice"

Characters	Pennliness Palmer
Genre	humor
Pencils	Stan Kaye
Inks	Stan Kaye

7 page TNT and Dan the Dyna-Mite story "Solid Ghosts"

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

10 page Robotman story "The Jigsaw Crimes"

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