Star Spangled Comics #52 (1946) for Sale - Where to Buy

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	Rehearsal for Crime	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	D Is for Donkey	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.67
3	Rehearsal for a Crime!	comic story	10	script: Don C. Cameron; pencils: Arturo Cazeneuve; inks: Steve Brodie	The Guardian [Jim Harper]; The Newsboy Legion [Tommy Tompkins; Big Words [Anthony Rodriguez]; Gabby [Jonathan Gabrielli]; Scrapper [Patrick MacGuire]]; Blackie Evers (villain)
6	The Ghost Dog!	comic story	6	script: Joe Samachson; pencils: Jimmy Thompson; inks: Jimmy Thompson; letters: Jimmy Thompson	Robotman [Robert Crane; aka Paul Dennis]; Robbie the Robotdog; Stubs Morgan (villain)
8	The Beggar Band!	comic story	9	script: Joe Samachson; pencils: Jon Small; inks: Jon Small	The Star-Spangled Kid [Sylvester Pemberton]; Stripesy [Pat Dugan]; S.J. Pemberton
9	Big Red	text story	2	script: Eddie Bell
10	-	comic story	0.5	script: Lit-Win; pencils: Lit-Win; inks: Lit-Win
12	The Pills and the Pottage	comic story	5	pencils: Thurston Harper; inks: Thurston Harper
14	-	comic story	0.5	script: Henry Boltinoff; pencils: Henry Boltinoff; inks: Henry Boltinoff
16	Seasick Mikado!	comic story	9	script: Don C. Cameron; pencils: Chuck Winter; inks: Chuck Winter	Liberty Belle [Libby Lawrence]; Rickey Cannon; Captain Fuyosho; Lun Fo

Plus 8 pages of advertisements and other matter across 9 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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