Star Spangled Comics #17 (1943) for Sale - Where to Buy

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	The Newsboy Legion Battles the Rafferty Mob!	cover	1	pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Joe Simon; colors: Jack Kirby	Big Words, Gabby, The Guardian, Jim Harper, Scrapper, Tommy
1	Editorial Advisory Board	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.33	letters: typeset
2	Good Books Worth Reading	text article	0.67	letters: typeset
3	The Rafferty Mob	comic story	13	script: Joe Simon, Jack Kirby; pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Arturo Cazeneuve; letters: Howard Ferguson	Big Words, Gabby, The Guardian, Jim Harper, Scrapper, Tommy
4	Leading Comics	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.5
5	Comic Cavalcade	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.5
6	Spy City!	comic story	13	pencils: Hal Sherman; inks: Hal Sherman	Pat Dugan, Sylvester Pemberton, The Star-Spangled Kid, Stripesy
7	Names of Money	text article	1	script: Sidney M. Elias
8	The Captain of Crime	comic story	8	pencils: Ed Smalle; inks: Ed Smalle	John Law, Tarantula
10	-	cartoon	0.5	script: Henry Boltinoff; pencils: Henry Boltinoff; inks: Henry Boltinoff
11	The Mystery of the Missing Cat's Meow!	comic story	6	pencils: Stan Kaye; inks: Stan Kaye	Penniless Palmer
12	Rings of Peril!	comic story	7	pencils: Louis Cazeneuve; inks: Louis Cazeneuve	Dan the Dyna-Mite, Dan Dunbar, Tex N. Thomas, TNT
13	The Boy Commandos Are Here!	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.45	letters: typeset
16	The Singing Knife	text story	2	script: Don Blake
17	Man against Machine!	comic story	10	script: Jerry Siegel; pencils: Ed Dobrotka; inks: Ed Dobrotka	Robert Crane / Paul Dennis, Chuck Grayson, Robotman
18	-	promo (ad from the publisher)	1

Plus 3.05 pages of advertisements and other matter across 5 sequences, as published.

Collection	Year
The Newsboy Legion by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby #1 ISBN 978-1-4012-2593-3	2010	On eBay ›

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