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Issue Details

Issue #7
Published April 1942
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 68
Editing Whitney Ellsworth

Cover Details - "Introducing the Newsboy Legion with the Guardian!"

Characters The 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
Colors Jack Kirby
Letters typeset
Notes Cover colors credit from Greg Theakston, via the GCD Error List (2008-4-5)
Reprinted in Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen (DC, 1954 series) #141; in Newsboy Legion By Joe Simon & Jack Kirby, The (DC, 2010 series) #1

13 page The Newsboy Legion story "The Story Of The Newsboy Legion"

Characters The Newsboy Legion: Big Words [Anthony Rodriguez]; Gabby [Jonathan Gabrielli]; Scrapper [Patrick MacGuire]; Tommy Thompkins (introduction); The Guardian [Jim Harper] (introduction); Frankie the Fence (villain); Chips Carder (villain)
Synopsis Jim Harper becomes the Guardian for the first time, and also stops a local gang of kids from being sent to jail, hoping he can help them turn their lives around.
Genre superhero
Script Joe Simon; Jack Kirby
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Joe Simon
Letters Howard Ferguson
Reprinted in Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen (DC, 1954 series) #141 (September 1971); in Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #503 (September 1983); in Newsboy Legion By Joe Simon & Jack Kirby, The (DC, 2010 series) #1

8 page The Tarantula story "The Crime Escradille"

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

8 page Captain X story "The Gas Bombs"

Characters Captain X [Richard Dare]
Genre war
Pencils Arturo Cazeneuve
Inks Arturo Cazeneuve

13 page Robotman story "The Birth of Robotman"

Characters Robotman [Robert Crane, aka Paul Dennis](introduction); Chuck Grayson; Joan Carter
Genre superhero
Script Jerry Siegel
Pencils Leo Nowak (pages 1-5); Paul Cassidy (pages 6-13)
Inks Paul Cassidy

7 page TNT and Dan the Dyna-Mite story "The Dwarf"

Characters TNT [Thomas N. Thomas]]; Dan [Daniel Dunbar]; The Dwarf (villain)
Genre superhero
Pencils Paul Norris
Inks Paul Norris

13 page The Star-Spangled Kid story "The Picture That Killed"

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