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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).