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24September 1943
$0.10

Star Spangled Comics #24

DC · September 1943 · on sale 1943-06-28

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Identification plate

Series
Star Spangled Comics (DC, 1941 series)
Issue
#24
Publication date
September 1943
Key date
1943-09-00
On-sale date
1943-06-28
Indicia publisher
Detective Comics Inc.
Price
$0.10
Pages
60

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Contents

SeqStoryTypePagesCreditsCharacters
0-cover1pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Arturo CazeneuveThe Guardian [Jim Harper]; The Newsboy Legion [Tommy Tompkins; Big Words [Anthony Rodriguez]; Gabby [Jonathan Gabrielli]; Scrapper [Patrick MacGuire]]
1Editorial Advisory Boardpromo (ad from the publisher)0.33letters: typeset
2Shadow in the Pinestext article0.67script: Josette Frank
3Death Strikes a Bargaincomic story13script: Joe Simon, Jack Kirby; pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Arturo Cazeneuve; letters: Howard FergusonThe 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)
4-promo (ad from the publisher)1
5The Mail-Order Mob!comic story10pencils: Hal Sherman; inks: Hal ShermanThe Star-Spangled Kid [Sylvester Pemberton]; Stripesy [Pat Dugan]
6The Mystery of the Leaping Lothario!comic story5.67pencils: Henry Boltinoff; inks: Henry BoltinoffPenniless Palmer
7Leading Comicspromo (ad from the publisher)0.33
8-comic story1script: Henry Boltinoff; pencils: Henry Boltinoff; inks: Henry Boltinoff
10Jitters' Jeepcomic story4script: Jack Farr; pencils: Jack Farr; inks: Jack Farr; letters: Jack Farr
11Series Incidenttext story2script: Tod Lowry
12The Beggars' Masquerade!comic story10script: Don C. Cameron; pencils: Chuck Winter; inks: Chuck WinterLiberty Belle [Libby Lawrence]
13The Bandit Beasties!comic story7script: Jerry Siegel; pencils: John Daly; inks: Chuck WinterRobotman [Robert Crane; aka Paul Dennis]

Plus 4 pages of advertisements and other matter across 3 sequences, as published.

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CollectionYear
The Newsboy Legion by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby #1
ISBN 978-1-4012-2593-3
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