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Issue Details

Issue #22
Published July 1943
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 60
Editing Whitney Ellsworth (credited), Jack Schiff (actual)

Cover Details - "Brains for Sale!"

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 "Brains for Sale!"

Characters The Guardian [Jim Harper]; The Newsboy Legion: [Tommy Tompkins; Big Words [Anthony Rodriguez]; Gabby [Jonathan Gabrielli]; Scrapper [Patrick MacGuire]]; Sam the Muscle (villain); Doc Logus (villain); Squeegee (villain); Bones (villain)
Synopsis Sam the Muscle and his mob can't operate in Suicide Slum with the Legion and Guardian around, so they create an elaborate scheme to get rid of them.......one at a time, and Gabby is their first target.
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

10 page The Star Spangled Kid story "Stripesy Becomes a Brain Truster"

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

6 page Penniless Palmer story "Enigma of the Nickel Knaves"

Characters Penniless Palmer
Genre humor
Pencils George Storm
Inks George Storm

10 page Liberty Belle story "Wings of Treachery"

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 "The Hunter Who Aimed to Miss"

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

7 page Robotman story "Raids of the Rubbish Robbers"

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