Star Spangled Comics #23

(August 1943)

Art for Scrapper's Sake (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]]; Group of juvenile gang members: [Butch, Spike, Beefy]; Dudley Dabb (villain, artist); Sanford Greentree (villain, art dealer)

Synopsis:

A washed up artist and a shrewd art dealer combine their evil talents, convincing Scrapper that is the greatest surrealist painter of all time, hoping to make a fortune off of him with rich art clients who are conned into buying Scrapper's works.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

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

Indexer Notes

Inker credit revised from John Daly? to Cazeneuve by Craig Delich 2010-6-13. Daly only did inks on this strip in 1946.

Sweet Land of Liberty (Table of Contents)

The Star Spangled Kid / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Hal Sherman

Inks:

Hal Sherman

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

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

Too Many Sleuths (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Henry Boltinoff

Inks:

Henry Boltinoff

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Penniless Palmer

An American Joan of Arc (Table of Contents)

Liberty Belle / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Don Cameron

Pencils:

Chuck Winter

Inks:

Chuck Winter

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Liberty Belle [Libby Lawrence]

The Clumsy Criminals (Table of Contents)

TNT and Dan the Dyna-Mite / comic story / 6 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 Vanishing Vandals (Table of Contents)

Robotman / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Jerry Siegel

Pencils:

John Daly

Inks:

Chuck Winter

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Robotman [Robert Crane aka Paul Dennis]

Indexer Notes

Credits supplied by Craig Delich (March, 2005).