Star Spangled Comics #15

(December 1942)

Playmates of Peril! (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:

Arturo Cazeneuve [as 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]]; Mrs. Slattery; Tony (grocer); Sergeant Mulroony; Sparky (Suicide Slum gang member); Butch Baxter (villain)

Synopsis:

Hearing that the Baxter gang is going to commit a big crime, the Guardian steps in to bust that up......at least for a little. However, when a policeman notes the absence of Jim Harper from his beat and Harper is warned by the Captain not to do so again, else he'll be fired, the gang decides to commit to heist anyway, knowing that Harper is being constantly watched by a Sergeant.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in The Newsboy Legion by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby (DC, 2010 series) #1 (February 2010)

The Log of the Lucky Lode (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]

Tarantula Turns Thief (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]

The College of Crime (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]

Case of the Haunted Hams (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Stan Kaye

Inks:

Stan Kaye

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Penniless Palmer

The Trial of Robotman (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 Dennia]; Chuck Grayson; Jeff (Robotman's lawyer); Joan (Robert Crane's girlfriend); Sam Slugg (villain, shyster lawyer); Brutus Bane (villain)

Synopsis:

A crooked lawyer figures out a way of legally putting Robotman out of the picture so that he can have the smartest crooks in the world working for him. To win the case, the Man of Metal must prove to the court that he is really a human being.

Indexer Notes

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