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Issue Details

Issue #15
Published December 1942
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 68
Editing Whitney Ellsworth
Notes Cover colors credit from Greg Theakston, via the GCD Error List (5 April 2008)

Cover Details - "Playmates of Peril!"

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 colorist 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 "Playmates of Peril!"

Characters The Guardian [Jim Harper]; The Newsboy Legion: [Tommy Tompkins; Big Words [Anthony Rodriguez]; Gabby [Jonathan Gabrielli]; Scrapper [Patrick MacGuire]]; Mrs. Slattery; Tony (grocer); Sergeant Mulroony; Sparky (Suicide Slum gang member); Butch Baxter (villain)
Synopsis Hearing that the Baxter gang is going to commit a big crime, the Guardian steps in to bust that up......at least for a little. However, when a policeman notes the absence of Jim Harper from his beat and Harper is warned by the Captain not to do so again, else he'll be fired, the gang decides to commit to heist anyway, knowing that Harper is being constantly watched by a Sergeant.
Genre superhero
Script Joe Simon (signed); Jack Kirby (signed)
Pencils Jack Kirby (signed)
Inks Arturo Cazeneuve [as Joe Simon] (signed)
Letters Howard Ferguson
Reprinted in Newsboy Legion by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby, The (DC, 2010 series) #1

7 page TNT and Dan the Dyna-Mite story "The Log of the Lucky Lode"

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

8 page Tarantula story "Tarantula Turns Thief"

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

13 page The Star-Spangled Kid story "The College of Crime"

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

6 page Penniless Palmer story "Case of the Haunted Hams"

Characters Penniless Palmer
Genre humor
Pencils Stan Kaye
Inks Stan Kaye

10 page Robotman story "The Trial of Robotman"

Characters Robotman [Robert Crane, aka Paul Dennia]; Chuck Grayson; Jeff (Robotman's lawyer); Joan (Robert Crane's girlfriend); Sam Slugg (villain, shyster lawyer); Brutus Bane (villain)
Synopsis A crooked lawyer figures out a way of legally putting Robotman out of the picture so that he can have the smartest crooks in the world working for him. To win the case, the Man of Metal must prove to the court that he is really a human being.
Genre superhero
Script Jerry Siegel
Pencils Sam Citron
Inks Sam Citron
Notes Art identification based on correspondence between Jerry Siegel and Whitney Ellsworth in 1942.