Star Spangled Comics #10

(July 1942)

Kings for a Day (Table of Contents)

The Newsboy Legion / comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Joe Simon (signed); Jack Kirby (signed)

Pencils:

Jack Kirby (signed)

Inks:

Joe Simon (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

Howard Ferguson

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

The Guardian [Jim Harper]; The Newsboy Legion [Tommy Thompkins; Big Words [Anthony Rodriguez]; Gabby [Jonathan Gabrielli]; Scrapper [Patrick MacGuire]; Mark Mangle (villain)

Synopsis:

The Newsboy Legion is selected to take over the position of several city officials for a day. Mark Mangle and his mob plan to take advantage of that day to commit several crimes, that the Newsboys stop.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen (DC, 1954 series) #144 (December 1971)
• in The Newsboy Legion by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby (DC, 2010 series) #1 (February 2010)

The Education of East-Side Eggbert (Table of Contents)

The Star-Spangled Kid / comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Jerry Siegel

Pencils:

Hal Sherman

Inks:

Hal Sherman

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

The Star-Spangled Kid [Sylvester Pemberton]; Stripesy [Pat Dugan]; East-Side Eggbert

Four on a Web (Table of Contents)

The Tarantula / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Harold Sharp

Inks:

Harold Sharp

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

The Tarantula [John Law]

Case of the Petrified Poet (Table of Contents)

Penniless Palmer / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Whitney Ellsworth ?

Pencils:

Kosti Ruohomaa [as Kosti] (signed)

Inks:

Kosti Ruohomaa [as Kosti] (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Penniless Palmer

Indexer Notes

Artist identified by Ilpo Lagerstedt (October, 2006)

Case of the Spendthrift Miser (Table of Contents)

TNT and Dan the Dyna-Mite / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Louis Cazeneuve

Inks:

Louis Cazeneuve

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

TNT [Thomas N. Thomas]; Dan [Daniel Dunbar]

The Murder Master (Table of Contents)

Robotman / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Jerry Siegel

Pencils:

Sam Citron

Inks:

George Roussos

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Robotman [Robert Crane, aka Paul Dennis]; Chuck Grayson; Murder Master [Carl Denton](villain)

Synopsis:

Robotman has to discover why his friend and lab assistant, Chuck Grayson, is trying to murder him, and learns that the man behind the plot was an inventor once sent to prison by Paul Dennis for stealing one of his inventions.

Indexer Notes

Credits via Craig Delich, inker identification by Bob Hughes (March, 2005). Penciller identification based on correspondence between Whitney Ellsworth and Jerry Siegel, 1942.