Star Spangled Comics #13

(October 1942)

Editorial Advisory Board (Table of Contents: 1) (Expand) /

promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.33 page (report information)

Carcajou (Table of Contents: 2)

Good Books Worth Reading / text article / 0.67 page (report information)

Script

Josette Frank

Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover.

The Scoop of Suicide Slums! (Table of Contents: 3)

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

Script

Joe Simon (signed); Jack Kirby (signed)

Pencils

Jack Kirby (signed)

Inks

Joe Simon (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

Howard Ferguson

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

• 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 ([May] 2010)

The Man Who Could Make Dreams Come True! (Table of Contents: 4)

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

Script

?

Pencils

Harold Sherman (signed)

Inks

Harold Sherman (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

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

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 5) (Expand) /

Baby Ruth / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

The Skirmish of the Spider and the Fly! (Table of Contents: 6)

Tarantula / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

Manly Wade Wellman

Pencils

Hal Sharp (signed)

Inks

Hal Sharp (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

The Tarantula [John Law]; The Fly (villain); Fly's gang (villains)

Synopsis

Complete with fly wings and armed with (poisonous?) darts, the Fly and his gang are stealing valuable silk until they are stopped by the Tarantula.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 7)

Gags / cartoon / 0.5 page (report information)

Script

Henry Boltinoff

Pencils

Henry Boltinoff

Inks

Henry Boltinoff

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

My card, madame...

Genre

humor

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 8) (Expand) /

Wonder Woman / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page (report information)

Case of the Smiling Statue! (Table of Contents: 9)

Penniless Palmer / comic story / 7.67 pages (report information)

Script

R. L. Ross ?

Pencils

R. L. Ross

Inks

R. L. Ross

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

humor

Characters

Penniless Palmer

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 10) (Expand) /

Adventure Comics; Genius Jones / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.33 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 11)

Clancy the Cop / comic story / 0.22 page (report information)

Script

Henry Boltinoff (signed)

Pencils

Henry Boltinoff (signed)

Inks

Henry Boltinoff (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Pull over you...

Genre

humor

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 12) (Expand) /

Leading Comics / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.45 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 13) (Expand) /

advertisement / 0.33 page (report information)

The Perilous Passage (Table of Contents: 14)

TNT and Dan the Dyna-Mite / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Louis Cazeneuve

Inks

Louis Cazeneuve

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

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

A Matter of Sticking (Table of Contents: 15)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Norman Goss

Letters

typeset

Genre

adventure; sports

Characters

Sanders; Ballard; Gummy; Bowen

Synopsis

Football player Sanders always believed that chewing gum brought him luck. However, on game day this time around, he realized that wasn't gum that brought him luck...it was how he felt inside.

Keywords

Eagles (football team)

[Menace of the Blaster] (Table of Contents: 16)

Robotman / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script

Jerry Siegel

Pencils

Sam Citron

Inks

Sam Citron

Colors

?

Letters

?

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.

Keywords

Bower Dam

Indexer Notes

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

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 17) (Expand) /

Wonder Power Co. / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 18) (Expand) /

Webster's Comprehensive Encyclopedic Dictionary / advertisement / 1 page (report information)