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Issue Details

Issue #20
Published May 1943
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 68
Editing Whitney Ellsworth (credited); Jack Schiff (actual)

Cover Details - "The Newsboys and the Champ!"

Characters The Guardian [Jim Harper]; The Newsboy Legion: [Tommy Tompkins; Big Words [Anthony Rodriguez]; Gabby [Jonathan Gabrielli]; Scrapper [Patrick MacGuire]]; Zeke Potts
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 Newsboys and the Champ"

Characters The Guardian [Jim Harper]; The Newsboy Legion: [Tommy Tompkins; Big Words [Anthony Rodriguez]; Gabby [Jonathan Gabrielli]; Scrapper [Patrick MacGuire]]; Zeke Potts (fighter); Mike (restaurant owner); Tony (fruitstand owner); Max Lawlor (fight manager); Slugger Kane (boxer); Spike Dunphy (boxer)
Synopsis The Legion gets their friend Zeke Potts a chance to fight in a championship match, but Zeke looks nothing like a fighter, and acts little like one until the Guardian gets a bright idea.
Genre superhero
Script Joe Simon (signed); Jack Kirby (signed)
Pencils Jack Kirby [as Kirby] (signed)
Inks Steve Brodie [as Joe Simon] (signed)
Letters Howard Ferguson
Reprinted in Newsboy Legion by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby, The (DC, 2010 series) #1

10 page The Star Spangled Kid story "Needle in the Haystack"

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

10 page Liberty Belle story "Belles of Liberty"

Characters Liberty Belle [Libby Lawrence]
Genre superhero
Script Don Cameron
Pencils Chuck Winter
Inks Chuck Winter

6 page Penniless Palmer story "Case of the Capering Mice"

Characters Pennliness Palmer
Genre humor
Pencils Stan Kaye
Inks Stan Kaye

7 page TNT and Dan the Dyna-Mite story "Solid Ghosts"

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

10 page Robotman story "The Jigsaw Crimes"

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