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Issue Details

Issue	#16
Published	January 1943
Cover Price	0.10 USD
Pages	68
Editing	Whitney Ellsworth (credited), Jack Schiff (actual)
Notes	Cover colors credit from Greg Theakston, via the GCD Error List (5 April 2008)

Cover Details - "The Playboy of Suicide Slum!"

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 (signed)
Inks	Joe Simon (signed)
Colors	Jack Kirby
Notes	Cover colors 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 "The Playboy of Suicide Slum!"

Characters	The Guardian [Jim Harper]; The Newsboy Legion: [Tommy Tompkins; Big Words [Anthony Rodriguez]; Gabby [Jonathan Gabrielli]; Scrapper [Patrick MacGuire]]; Willis Thornton (banker); Mrs. Thornton; Betty Thornton; Marie (Thornton's maid); Melvin Rudd (villain, Thornton's nephew)
Synopsis	When Tommy saves a young girl from being killed by the automobile of wealthy Mr. Thornton, the man decides to adopt Tommy and give him the best of everything. But Thornton's nephew detests this as he feels that it may cut him out of Thornton's will, so he and his gang decide to rob the rich banker and blame it on Tommy.
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

13 page The Star Spangled Kid story "Perils of the Penny Plunderers"

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

8 page Tarantula story "Truants in Trouble"

Characters	The Tarantula [John Law]
Genre	superhero
Pencils	Al Anders
Inks	Al Anders

6 page Penniless Palmer story "Riddle of the Magic Fiddle"

Characters	Penniless Palmer
Genre	humor
Pencils	Stan Kaye
Inks	Stan Kaye

7 page TNT and Dan the Dyna-Mite story "Case of the Spy Proof Catapult"

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

10 page Robotman story "Robotman Takes an Hour Off"

Characters	Robotman [Robert Crane aka Paul Dennis]
Genre	superhero
Script	Jerry Siegel
Pencils	Ed Dobrotka
Inks	Ed Dobrotka
Notes	Credits supplied by Craig Delich (March, 2005).