Star Spangled Comics #51 (1945) for Sale - Where to Buy

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	-	cover	1	pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Steve Brodie; letters: Ira Schnapp	Guardian; Newsboy Legion
1	Editorial Advisory Board	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.33	letters: typeset
2	C Is for Cat	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.67
3	The Style Show of Suicide Slum	comic story	11	script: Don C. Cameron; pencils: Joe Kubert; inks: Joe Kubert	The Guardian [Jim Harper]; The Newsboy Legion [Tommy Tompkins; Big Words [Anthony Rodriguez]; Gabby [Jonathan Gabrielli]; Scrapper [Patrick MacGuire]]; Pushcart Pete; Soupy Slater (villain)
5	Emergency Kit for Crime!	comic story	6	script: Joe Samachson; pencils: Jimmy Thompson; inks: Jimmy Thompson; letters: Jimmy Thompson	Robotman
7	Mr. Gadget Breaks Jail!	comic story	9	script: Joe Samachson; pencils: Jon Small; inks: Jon Small	The Star-Spangled Kid, Stripesy
9	Freddy Fixit	comic story	1	script: Wat; pencils: Wat; inks: Wat	Freddy Fixit
10	K'Oro Goes to War	text story	2	script: Fred Whitby
11	Jasper	comic story	0.5	script: Lit-Win; pencils: Lit-Win; inks: Lit-Win	Jasper
13	Thar's Gold in Them Thar Chills	comic story	5	script: Whitney Ellsworth; pencils: Thurston Harper; inks: Thurston Harper	Penniless Palmer
15	Escape to Switzerland!	comic story	9	script: Don C. Cameron; pencils: Chuck Winter; inks: Chuck Winter	Liberty Belle, Libby Lawrence

Plus 6.5 pages of advertisements and other matter across 7 sequences, as published.

Collection	Year
The Newsboy Legion by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby #2 ISBN 978-1-4012-7236-4	2017	On eBay ›

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