Star Spangled Comics #53 (1946) for Sale - Where to Buy

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	The Poet of Suicide Slum	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	E Is for Elephant	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.67
3	The Poet of Suicide Slum!	comic story	10	script: Don C. Cameron; pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Steve Brodie	The Guardian [Jim Harper]; The Newsboy Legion [Tommy Tompkins; Big Words [Anthony Rodriguez]; Gabby [Jonathan Gabrielli]]; Inky Smith; Bugs Birch (villain)
5	The Rascals	comic story	0.5
7	Lightning Strikes Twice!	comic story	6	script: Joe Samachson; pencils: Jimmy Thompson; inks: Jimmy Thompson; letters: Jimmy Thompson	Robotman [Robert Crane; Paul Dennis]; Robbie the Robotdog; Gloves (villain)
9	Mission to Manchukuo!	comic story	9	script: Don C. Cameron; pencils: Chuck Winter; inks: Chuck Winter	Liberty Belle [Libby Lawrence]; Rickey Cannon
10	Unlucky Night	text story	2	script: Ted Loury
12	The Scent of the Straying Schnauzer	comic story	5	pencils: Thurston Harper; inks: Thurston Harper
14	-	comic story	0.5	script: Henry Boltinoff; pencils: Henry Boltinoff; inks: Henry Boltinoff; letters: Henry Boltinoff
16	Clip-Joint for Crime!	comic story	9	script: Joe Samachson; pencils: Jon Small; inks: Jon Small	The Star-Spangled Kid [Sylvester Pemberton]; Stripesy [Pat Dugan]; Gloria Pemberton; Charlie; Mr. Van Uppa; the Zebra (villain)

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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