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) |
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 |
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 |
Characters | TNT [Thomas N. Thomas]; Dan [Daniel Dunbar] |
Genre | superhero |
Pencils | Louis Cazeneuve |
Inks | Louis Cazeneuve |
Characters | The Tarantula [John Law] |
Genre | superhero |
Pencils | Harold Sharp |
Inks | Harold Sharp |
Characters | The Star-Spangled Kid [Sylvester Pemberton]; Stripsey [Pat Dugan] |
Genre | superhero |
Pencils | Hal Sherman |
Inks | Hal Sherman |
Characters | Penniless Palmer |
Genre | humor |
Pencils | Stan Kaye |
Inks | Stan Kaye |
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. |