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) |
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 |
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 |
Characters | The Star-Spangled Kid [Sylvester Pemberton]; Stripsey [Pat Dugan] |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Jerry Siegel |
Pencils | Hal Sherman |
Inks | Hal Sherman |
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) |
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. |
Characters | TNT [Thomas N. Thomas]; Dan [Daniel Dunbar] |
Genre | superhero |
Pencils | Louis Cazeneuve |
Inks | Louis Cazeneuve |
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. |
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. |