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28January 1944
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Star Spangled Comics #28

DC · January 1944 · on sale 1943-10-30

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Identification plate

Series
Star Spangled Comics (DC, 1941 series)
Issue
#28
Publication date
January 1944
Key date
1944-01-00
On-sale date
1943-10-30
Indicia publisher
Detective Comics Inc.
Price
$0.10
Pages
60

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Contents

SeqStoryTypePagesCreditsCharacters
0Poor Man's Rich Man!cover1pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Arturo CazeneuveThe Guardian [Jim Harper]; The Newsboy Legion [Tommy Tompkins; Big Words [Anthony Rodriguez]; Gabby [Jonathan Gabrielli]; Scrapper [Patrick MacGuire]]
2Poor Man's Rich Mancomic story11script: Joe Simon, Jack Kirby; pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Arturo CazeneuveThe Guardian [Jim Harper]; The Newsboy Legion [Tommy Tompkins; Big Words [Anthony Rodriguez]; Gabby [Jonathan Gabrielli]; Scrapper [Patrick MacGuire]]; Pop O'Leary (night watchman); Gopher Finchley (villain); Conker (villain)
3-comic story1script: Henry Boltinoff; pencils: Henry Boltinoff; inks: Henry Boltinoff
5The Mirror of Madness!comic story10pencils: Hal Sherman; inks: Hal ShermanThe Star-Spangled Kid [Sylvester Pemberton]; Stripesy [Pat Dugan]
6-comic story1
8-cartoon0.5script: Henry Boltinoff; pencils: Henry Boltinoff; inks: Henry Boltinoff
9The Cruise to Nowhere!comic story6pencils: George Storm; inks: George StormPenniless Palmer
10Prof. Pippcomic story3script: Jack Farr; pencils: Jack Farr; inks: Jack Farr; letters: Jack Farr
11The All-American Waycomic story10script: Don C. Cameron; pencils: Chuck Winter; inks: Chuck WinterLiberty Belle [Libby Lawrence]
12Motive, Revengetext story2script: Greg Browne
13-promo (ad from the publisher)1
14-comic story1script: Jack Farr; pencils: Jack Farr; inks: Jack Farr; letters: Jack Farr
15The Mobster and the Millionaire!comic story6.67pencils: Jimmy Thompson; inks: Jimmy Thompson; letters: Jimmy ThompsonRobotman [Robert Crane; aka Paul Dennis]
16World's Finest Comicspromo (ad from the publisher)0.33

Plus 5.5 pages of advertisements and other matter across 6 sequences, as published.

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CollectionYear
The Newsboy Legion by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby #1
ISBN 978-1-4012-2593-3		2010On eBay ›
Take That, Adolf!: The Fighting Comic Books of the Second World War #[nn]
ISBN 978-1-60699-987-5		2017On eBay ›

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Series context

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