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Issue Details

Issue #12
Published September 1942
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 68
Editing Whitney Ellsworth

Cover Details - "Prevue of Peril!"

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

13 page The Newsboy Legion story "Prevue of Peril"

Characters The Guardian [Jim Harper]; The Newsboy Legion [Tommy Tompkins; Big Words [Anthony Rodriguez]; Gabby [Jonathan Gabrielli]; Scrapper [Patrick MacGuire]]; Tony (merchant); Bing Crosby (cameo); Bob Hope (cameo); Hedy Lamar (cameo); Clark Gable (cameo); Carmen Miranda (cameo); un-named gangsters (villains)
Synopsis Touched by the needs of poor, starving people in Suicide Slum, the Legion asks Jim Harper for help, and he loans them a movie camera to make a movie on how bad the conditions are so that city residents can help out once they see it. But a gang of crooks decide to steal the film and put Officer Harper and the boys out of the way.
Genre superhero
Script Joe Simon (igned); Jack Kirby (signed)
Pencils Jack Kirby (signed)
Inks Joe Simon (signed)
Letters Howard Ferguson
Reprinted in Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen (DC, 1954 series) #146 (February 1972); in Newsboy Legion by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby, The (DC, 2010 series) #1

13 page The Star-Spangled Kid story "Case of the Precious Peach"

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

8 page Tarantula story "The Menace of Steeplejack Stoll's Gang"

Characters The Tarantula [John Law]; Steeplejack Stolle (villain)
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 inked this strip in 1942.

6 page Penniless Palmer story "Mystery of the Hiccupping Parrot"

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 some of the stories for this strip in 1942.

8 page TNT and Dan the Dyna-Mite story "Remember Yesterday"

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

10 page Robotman story "Satan's Machine Shop"

Characters Robotman [Robert Crane, aka Paul Dennis]; Chuck Grayson
Genre superhero
Script Jerry Siegel
Pencils Leo Nowak; Shuster Shop
Inks Leo Nowak; Shuster Shop
Notes Credits by Bob Hughes.