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Issue Details

Issue	#18
Published	March 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 Education of Iron-Fist Gookin"

Characters	The Guardian [Jim Harper]; The Newsboy Legion: [Tommy Tompkins; Big Words [Anthony Rodriguez]; Gabby [Jonathan Gabrielli]; Scrapper [Patrick MacGuire]]; Iron-Fist Gookin
Genre	superhero
Pencils	Jack Kirby [as Kirby] (signed)
Inks	Joe Simon [as 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 Education of Iron-Fist Gookin"

Characters	The Guardian [Jim Harper]; The Newsboy Legion: [Tommy Tompkins; Big Words [Anthony Rodriguez]; Gabby [Jonathan Gabrielli]; Scrapper [Patrick MacGuire]]; Iron-Fist Gookin; Sharpy Pierce (villain); Trigger (villain); Chuck (villain); Silvie (villain)
Synopsis	Mob boss Sharpy Pierce decides to use Iron-Fist Gookin, a wanna be gang leader, as the leader of his gang to take the heat off of himself. But when the wanna be learns that he is being used, he turns the tables on Sharpy and teaches him what justice is all about!
Genre	superhero
Script	Joe Simon (signed); Jack Kirby (signed)
Pencils	Jack Kirby (signed)
Inks	Arturo Cazeneuve [as Joe Simon] (signed)
Letters	Howard Ferguson [as Ferguson] (signed)
Notes	Letterer Howard Ferguson signed his last name on the book pictured on the splash page.
Reprinted	in Newsboy Legion by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby, The (DC, 2010 series) #1

13 page The Star Spangled Kid story "Stripesy vs. the Star Spangled Kid"

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

8 page Tarantula story "Granny Get Your Gun"

Characters	Tarantula [John Law]
Genre	superhero

6 page Penniless Palmer story "Myster of the Phony Sneeze"

Characters	Pennliness Palmer
Genre	humor
Pencils	Stan Kaye
Inks	Stan Kaye

7 page TNT and Dan the Dyna-Mite story "Dealer of Doom"

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

10 page Robotman story "Robotman Was Worth His Weight in Gold"

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