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Issue Details

Issue #11
Published August 1942
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 68
Editing Whitney Ellsworth
Notes Cover colors credits from Greg Theakston, via the GCD Error List (5 April 2008)

Cover Details - "Another smashing Newsboy Legion adventure story starring the Guardian in 13 pages of whirlwind action!"

Characters The Guardian [Jim Harper]; The Newsboy Legion: Tommy Tompkins; Big Words [Anthony Rodriguez]; Gabby [Jonathan Gabrielli]; Scrapper [Patrick MacGuire]
Genre superhero
Pencils Jack Kirby [as Kirby] (signed)
Inks Joe Simon [as Simon] (signed)
Colors Jack Kirby
Notes Cover colors credits from Greg Theakston, via the GCD Error List (2008-4-5).
Reprinted in Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen (DC, 1954 series) #145; in Newsboy Legion by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby, The (DC, 2010 series) #1

13 page The Newsboy Legion story "Paradise Prison"

Characters The Guardian [Jim Harper]; The Newsboy Legion: Tommy Tompkins; Big Words [Anthony Rodriguez]; Gabby [Jonathan Gabrielli]; Scrapper [Patrick MacGuire]; Superman [Clark Kent] (image); Muggsy Baker (villain); B. O. Goodley (villain, warden)
Synopsis The Legion discovers that a reformatory that a young criminal ran away from is corrupt, in that the Warden and guards keep the money appropriated for the care of the inmates, who are systematically starved, overworked and beaten.
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) #145 (January 1972); in Newsboy Legion by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby, The (DC, 2010 series) #1

13 page The Star-Spangled Kid story "Case of the Crippled Car"

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

8 page Tarantula story "Gallopin' Gold"

Characters The Tarantula [John Law]
Genre superhero
Pencils ? [as E. J. Smalle] (signed)
Inks Ed Smalle [as E. J. Smalle] (signed)
Notes Pencil revision from E. J. Smalle to ? by Craig Delich 2010-3-6. The Who's Who states that Smalle only did inks in 1942 on this strip.
Reprinted in World's Finest Comics (DC, 1941 series) #207 (November 1971)

6 page Penniless Palmer story "Cross-Eyed Crocodile"

Characters Penniless Palmer
Genre humor
Script R. L. Ross ?
Pencils R. L. Ross
Inks R. L. Ross
Notes Writer revision from R. L. Ross to R. L. Ross? by Craig Delich 2010-3-6. The Who's Who states that Ross MAY have written stories in 1942 for this strip.

7 page TNT and Dan the Dyna-Mite story "Case of the Missing Memory"

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

10 page Robotman story "Adventure of the Plundering Jap!"

Characters Robotman [Robert Crane, aka Paul Dennis]; Chuck Grayson; Slanteyes (villain); Bignose (villain); Dude (villain); Michey (villain)
Synopsis Paul Dennis is approached by a group of "businessmen" who are willing to buy all the scrap machinery in an abandoned factory that Dennis owns. However, it's Robotman that sees the connection between this offer and a string of scrap metal robberies that have been occuring.
Genre superhero
Script Jerry Siegel
Pencils Sam Citron
Inks Sam Citron
Notes Credits supplied by Craig Delich (March, 2005). Art credit based on correspondence between Jerry Siegel and Whitney Ellsworth in 1942.

1 page none public service announcement "A special message to the boys and girls of America from Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Secretary of the Treasury"

Synopsis Public service announcement from the Secretary of Defense, encouraging all youngsters to buy at least one ten cent Savings Stamp every week.
Script Henry Morgenthal, Jr.
Letters typeset
Notes Sequence added by Craig Delich 2010-3-6.