Star Spangled Comics #13

(October 1942)

The Scoop of Suicide Slums! (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 Tompkins; Big Words [Anthony Rodriguez]; Gabby [Jonathan Gabrielli]; Scrapper [Patrick MacGuire]]; Franklin D. Clark (villain, publisher of "The Observer"); Windy Wicks (villain); Slim Slavin (villain); Butch Benson (villain); Big Al Fenner (villain)

Synopsis:

The boys get a loan from Officer Harper to start publishing their own local newspaper, and Harper suggests they run a contest called "Cops and Robbers", with photos of known criminals on the lam, and offering a $1000 reward to citizens who can finger the criminals' whereabouts.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen (DC, 1954 series) #147 (March 1972)
• in The Newsboy Legion by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby (DC, 2010 series) #1 (February 2010)

The Man Who Could Make Dreams Come True (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Hal Sherman

Inks:

Hal Sherman

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

The Star-Spangled Kid [Sylvester Pemberton]; Stripsey [Pat Dugan]

The Skirmish of the Spider and the Fly (Table of Contents)

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]; Solomon Grundy (villain)

Case of the Smiling Statue (Table of Contents)

Penniless Palmer / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

R. L. Ross ?

Pencils:

R. L. Ross

Inks:

R. L. Ross

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Penniless Palmer

Indexer Notes

Writer revision from R. L. Ross to R. L. Ross? by Craig Delich 2010-3-6. The Who's Who states that Ross MAY have written some stories for this strip in 1942.

The Perilous Passage (Table of Contents)

TNT and Dan the Dyna-Mite / comic story / 7 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]

[Menace of the Blaster] (Table of Contents)

Robotman / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Jerry Siegel

Pencils:

Sam Citron

Inks:

Sam Citron

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Robotman [Robert Crane, aka Paul Dennis]; Chuck Grayson; Adolf Hitler (villain, cameo); The Blaster (villain, death); Slug (villain, death); Louie (villain); Fitz (villain)

Synopsis:

Robotman has a real task on his hands in trying to keep 5th Columnists from blowing up the vital Bower Dam.

Indexer Notes

Art identification based on correspondence between Whitney Ellsworth and Jerry Siegel in 1942.