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Issue: Star Spangled Comics #17
Publication Date: February 1943
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Issues: #17 of 130 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: A Superman DC PublicationView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Detective Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 12/01/1942
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 21 (7 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Whitney Ellsworth [as F. W. Ellsworth] (credited editor); Jack Schiff (actual editor)
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from copyright registration.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U .S.
Paper Stock: glossy Cover; newsprint Interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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The Newsboy Legion Battles the Rafferty Mob!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby (signed)
Inker(s): Joe Simon (signed)
Colorist(s): Jack Kirby
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Newsboy Legion
Character(s): The Guardian [Jim Harper]; The Newsboy Legion [Tommy Tompkins; Big Words [Anthony Rodriguez]; Gabby [Jonathan Gabrielli]; Scrapper [Patrick MacGuire]]
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In Content Item: FlagThe Newsboy Legion by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby #1 published May 2010
as Star Spangled Comics #17 cover [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 1
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Editorial Advisory Board

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 0.33
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Feature(s): Good Books Worth Reading
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Pages: 0.67
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The Rafferty Mob

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Joe Simon (signed); Jack Kirby (signed)
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby (signed)
Inker(s): Arturo Cazeneuve [as Joe Simon] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Howard Ferguson
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Newsboy Legion
Character(s): The Guardian [Jim Harper]; The Newsboy Legion [Tommy Tompkins; Big Words [Anthony Rodriguez]; Gabby [Jonathan Gabrielli]; Scrapper [Patrick MacGuire]]; Sugarfoot Sam (soda shop owner); Tony (fruit market owner); the Rafferty Mob [Maggie Rafferty; Skinnay]; Desmond Depew (villain, lawyer); Aces (villain)
Synopsis: Suicide Slum is being intimidated by a young gang led by Maggie Rafferty, whose brother Spike is in jail. But when she learns that a certain lawyer has framed her brother, the Rafferty Mob suddenly turns on the crooks and helps the Legion bring them to justice.
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In Content Item: FlagThe Newsboy Legion by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby #1 published May 2010
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Pages: 13
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Feature(s): Leading Comics
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Feature(s): Comic Cavalcade
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Spy City!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Hal Sherman (signed)
Inker(s): Hal Sherman (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Star-Spangled Kid
Character(s): The Star-Spangled Kid [Sylvester Pemberton]; Stripesy [Pat Dugan]
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Pages: 13
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Names of Money

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Writer(s): Sidney M. Elias
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Feature(s): Stamps
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The Captain of Crime

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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Ed Smalle
Inker(s): Ed Smalle
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Tarantula
Character(s): Tarantula [John Law]
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Pages: 8
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Feature(s): Morrow Coaster Brake
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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Henry Boltinoff
Penciller(s): Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Inker(s): Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Laffs
First Line: Hello Al - Remember that new parachute...
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The Mystery of the Missing Cat's Meow!

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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Stan Kaye
Inker(s): Stan Kaye
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Penniless Palmer
Character(s): Pennliness Palmer
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Rings of Peril!

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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Louis Cazeneuve
Inker(s): Louis Cazeneuve
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): TNT and Dan the Dyna-Mite
Character(s): TNT [Thomas N. Thomas]; Dan [Daniel Dunbar]
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The Boy Commandos Are Here!

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Feature(s): Lionel Trains
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Pages: 0.22
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The Singing Knife

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): Don Blake
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Man against Machine!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): Jerry Siegel
Penciller(s): Ed Dobrotka
Inker(s): Ed Dobrotka
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Robotman
Character(s): Robotman [Robert Crane; aka Paul Dennis]
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First Line: Be sure to get these top favorites for the best in comics!
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Feature(s): National Radio Institute
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Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Feature(s): Baby Ruth
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Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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