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Issue Details

Issue #21
Published June 1943
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 60
Editing Whitney Ellsworth (credited), Jack Schiff (actual)

Cover Details

Characters The Guardian [Jim Harper]; The Newsboy Legion: [Tommy Tompkins; Big Words [Anthony Rodriguez]; Gabby [Jonathan Gabrielli]; Scrapper [Patrick MacGuire]]
Genre superhero
Pencils Fred Ray
Inks Fred Ray
Reprinted in Newsboy Legion by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby, The (DC, 2010 series) #1

13 page The Newsboy Legion story "The House Where Time Stood Still"

Characters The Guardian [Jim Harper]; The Newsboy Legion: [Tommy Tompkins; Big Words [Anthony Rodriguez]; Gabby [Jonathan Gabrielli]; Scrapper [Patrick MacGuire]]; Hector Presby; Julius Presby; August (villain, Nazi spy); Karl (villain, Nazi spy)
Synopsis Citizens are very concerned that the Presby brothers haven't been seen in over 25 years, so the boys and the Guardian investigate, only to learn that they locked themselves in their home to avoid contact with World War 1 and now World War 2. However, that plays right into the hands of a couple of Nazi spies who intend to use their home as a secret Nazi radio station to contact submarines.
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 Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #442 (August-September 1974); in Newsboy Legion by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby, The (DC, 2010 series) #1

10 page The Star Spangled Kid story "Pop Goes the Weasel"

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

10 page Liberty Belle story "The Vandal Invaders"

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

6 page TNT and Dan the Dyna-Mite story "unknown"

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

7 page Penniless Palmer story "The Vanishing Elevator"

Characters Pennliness Palmer
Genre humor
Pencils George Storm
Inks George Storm

8 page Robotman story "The Four Strong Men"

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).