Price: 0.10 USD
Pages: 68
On-sale Date: 1942-08-01
Editing: Whitney Ellsworth (credited as F. W. Ellsworth) (editor)
Cover Thumbnail for Star Spangled Comics (DC, 1941 series) #13 Edit Cover
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Kill Dat Story!
(Table of Contents)

The Newsboy Legion / cover / 1 page

Script:
?
Pencils:
Jack Kirby (signed as Kirby)
Inks:
Joe Simon (signed as Simon)
Colors:
Letters:
?
  • Genre:superhero
Characters:
The Newsboy Legion
Reprints (1)

Indexer Notes

Cover colors credit from Greg Theakston, via the GCD Error List.

Issue Data

Indexer Notes

On-sale date from copyright registration.

Editorial Advisory Board
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promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.33 page

Carcajou
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Good Books Worth Reading / in-house column / 0.67 page

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

The Newsboy Legion / comic story / 13 pages

Script:
Joe Simon (signed)
Jack Kirby (signed)
Pencils:
Jack Kirby (signed)
Inks:
Joe Simon (signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
  • Genre:superhero
Characters:
The Newsboy Legion 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 (2)

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

The Star-Spangled Kid / comic story / 13 pages

Script:
?
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:superhero
Characters:

[no title indexed]
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Baby Ruth / advertisement / 1 page

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

Tarantula / comic story / 8 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Hal Sharp (signed)
Inks:
Hal Sharp (signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:superhero
Characters:
The 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

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:My card, madame...

[no title indexed]
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Wonder Woman / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page

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

Penniless Palmer / comic story / 7.67 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:humor
Characters:

[no title indexed]
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Adventure Comics; Genius Jones / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.33 page

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

Clancy the Cop / comic story / 0.22 page

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Pull over you...
Characters:
Clancy

[no title indexed]
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Leading Comics / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.45 page

[no title indexed]
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advertisement / 0.33 page

The Perilous Passage
(Table of Contents: 14)

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

Script:
?
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:superhero
Characters:

Indexer Notes

Dan the Dyna-Mite has no head covering in issues #10-15.

A Matter of Sticking
(Table of Contents: 15)

text story / 2 pages

Script:
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.

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

Robotman / comic story / 10 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:superhero
Characters:
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.

[no title indexed]
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Wonder Power Co. / advertisement / 1 page

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

Webster's Comprehensive Encyclopedic Dictionary / advertisement / 1 page

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Table of Contents ToC
    Table of Contents
  1. Kill Dat Story!
    The Newsboy Legion
  2. Editorial Advisory Board
  3. Carcajou
    Good Books Worth Reading
  4. The Scoop of Suicide Slums!
    The Newsboy Legion
  5. The Man Who Could Make Dreams Come True!
    The Star-Spangled Kid
  6. [no title indexed]
    Baby Ruth
  7. The Skirmish of the Spider and the Fly!
    Tarantula
  8. ["My card, madame..."]
    Gags
  9. [no title indexed]
    Wonder Woman
  10. Case of the Smiling Statue!
    Penniless Palmer
  11. [no title indexed]
    Adventure Comics; Genius Jones
  12. ["Pull over you..."]
    Clancy the Cop
  13. [no title indexed]
    Leading Comics
  14. [no title indexed]
  15. The Perilous Passage
    TNT and Dan the Dyna-Mite
  16. A Matter of Sticking
  17. [Menace of the Blaster]
    Robotman
  18. [no title indexed]
    Wonder Power Co.
  19. [no title indexed]
    Webster's Comprehensive Encyclopedic Dictionary
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