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Issue Details

Issue #24
Published September 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 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 "Death Strikes a Bargain"

Characters The Guardian [Jim Harper]; The Newsboy Legion: [Tommy Tompkins; Big Words [Anthony Rodriguez]; Gabby [Jonathan Gabrielli]; Scrapper [Patrick MacGuire]]; Police Chief Blaine; Mr. Masterson (villain, philanthropist); Giraffe Fontanne (villain, death); the Mystery Mob (villains)
Synopsis Faced with mass murders occuring in Suicide Slum, a wealthy philanthropist offers to conduct an experiment in "environmental change" by putting the Legion members up in his home in plush surroundings. But the Guardian discovers Mr. Masterson's efforts are actually a front to get the boys out of the way so they could commit their crimes.
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 "The Mail Order Mob!"

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

6 page Penniless Palmer story "Mystery of the Leaping Lothario"

Characters Penniless Palmer
Genre humor
Pencils Henry Boltinoff
Inks Henry Boltinoff

4 page Jitters Jeep story "This Way to the Bottom of the Sea"

Genre gag
Script Jack Farr
Pencils Jack Farr
Inks Jack Farr
Letters Jack Farr

10 page Liberty Belle story "The Beggar's Masquerade"

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

7 page Robotman story "The Bandit Beasties"

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