Star Spangled Comics #43 (1945) for Sale - Where to Buy

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	-	cover	1	pencils: Joe Simon; inks: Jack Kirby; letters: Ira Schnapp	Guardian; Newsboy Legion
1	Editorial Advisory Board	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.33	letters: typeset
2	-	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.67	letters: typeset
3	Trials of a Tenor!	comic story	10	pencils: Arturo Cazeneuve; inks: Arturo Cazeneuve; letters: Ira Schnapp	The Newsboy Legion [Tommy Tompkins; Gabby; Big Words; Scrapper]; The Guardian [Jim Harper]; Mr. Cutter; Pipes Ferguson
5	Riddle in Raiment!	comic story	5	pencils: Stan Kaye; inks: Stan Kaye
7	The Hamlet of Harry the Ham!	comic story	6	pencils: Jimmy Thompson; inks: Jimmy Thompson; letters: Jimmy Thompson	Robotman [Robert Crane; aka Paul Dennis]; Robbie the Robot Dog; Belloni; Harry the Ham (villain)
9	Exit the Clown	text story	2	script: Alton Black
10	-	comic story	0.5	script: Henry Boltinoff; pencils: Henry Boltinoff; inks: Henry Boltinoff
12	Mr. Gadget Learns a Lesson!	comic story	9	pencils: Jon Small; inks: Jon Small	The Star-Spangled Kid [Sylvester Pemberton]; Stripesy [Pat Dugan]; S.J. Pemberton; Mr. Wilkins; Mr. Gadget [disguised as Dr. Dagget] (villain)
14	Major Muffit	comic story	1	script: Jack Farr; pencils: Jack Farr; inks: Jack Farr
15	Accent on Action!	comic story	10	script: Don C. Cameron; pencils: Chuck Winter; inks: Chuck Winter	Liberty Belle [Libby Lawrence]; Rickey Cannon; Horatio Starr; Silas Brown; Mrs. Stackpoole; Professor Robinson; Sir Ronald Lorimer; Hans Schindler [disguised as Sir Miles Norman] (villain)

Plus 6.5 pages of advertisements and other matter across 6 sequences, as published.

Collection	Year
Take That, Adolf!: The Fighting Comic Books of the Second World War #[nn] ISBN 978-1-60699-987-5	2017	On eBay ›
The Newsboy Legion by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby #2 ISBN 978-1-4012-7236-4	2017	On eBay ›

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