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Issue Details

Issue #17
Published February 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 Newsboy Legion Battles the Rafferty Mob!"

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 Rafferty Mob"

Characters The Guardian [Jim Harper]; The Newsboy Legion: [Tommy Tompkins; Big Words [Anthony Rodriguez]; Gabby [Jonathan Gabrielli]; Scrapper [Patrick MacGuire]]; Sugarfoot Sam (soda shop owner); Tony (fruit market owner); the Rafferty Mob [Maggie Rafferty; Skinnay]; Desmond Depew (villain, lawyer); Aces (villain)
Synopsis Suicide Slum is being intimidated by a young gang led by Maggie Rafferty, whose brother Spike is in jail. But when she learns that a certain lawyer has framed her brother, the Rafferty Mob suddenly turns on the crooks and helps the Legion bring them to justice.
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 "Spy City"

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

8 page Tarantula story "The Captain of Crime"

Characters Tarantula [John Law]
Genre superhero
Pencils E. J. Smalle
Inks E. J. Smalle

6 page Penniless Palmer story "Mystery of the Missing Cat's Meow"

Characters Pennliness Palmer
Genre humor
Pencils Stan Kaye
Inks Stan Kaye

7 page TNT and Dan the Dyna-Mite story "Rings of Peril"

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

10 page Robotman story "Man against Machine"

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