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Issue Details

Issue #23
Published August 1943
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 60
Editing Whitney Ellsworth (credited), Jack Schiff (actual)

Cover Details - "Art for Scrapper's Sake!"

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

13 page The Newsboy Legion story "Art for Scrapper's Sake"

Characters The Guardian [Jim Harper]; The Newsboy Legion: [Tommy Tompkins; Big Words [Anthony Rodriguez]; Gabby [Jonathan Gabrielli]; Scrapper [Patrick MacGuire]]; Group of juvenile gang members: [Butch, Spike, Beefy]; Dudley Dabb (villain, artist); Sanford Greentree (villain, art dealer)
Synopsis A washed up artist and a shrewd art dealer combine their evil talents, convincing Scrapper that is the greatest surrealist painter of all time, hoping to make a fortune off of him with rich art clients who are conned into buying Scrapper's works.
Genre superhero
Script Joe Simon (signed); Jack Kirby (signed)
Pencils Jack Kirby (signed)
Inks Arturo Cazeneuve [as Joe Simon] (signed)
Letters Howard Ferguson
Notes Inker credit revised from John Daly? to Cazeneuve by Craig Delich 2010-6-13. Daly only did inks on this strip in 1946.
Reprinted in Newsboy Legion by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby, The (DC, 2010 series) #1

10 page The Star Spangled Kid story "Sweet Land of Liberty"

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

6 page Penniless Palmer story "Too Many Sleuths"

Characters Penniless Palmer
Genre humor
Pencils Henry Boltinoff
Inks Henry Boltinoff

10 page Liberty Belle story "An American Joan of Arc"

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 Clumsy Criminals"

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

7 page Robotman story "The Vanishing Vandals"

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).