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Star Spangled Comics #8

DC · Series began 1941 · May 1942

Dates

Cover date
May 1942
On sale
February 28, 1942
Pages
68

Editions and covers

Creators

pencils: Jack Kirby, Harold Sherman, Hal Sharp, Russell Cole, R. L. Ross, Fred Ray, Paul Norris, Leo Nowakinks: Joe Simon, Harold Sherman, Hal Sharp, Russell Cole, R. L. Ross, Fred Ray, Paul Norriscolors: Jack Kirbyscript: Josette Frank, Jack Kirby, Joe Simon, Jerry Siegel, Manly Wade Wellman, Russell Cole, John Hiltonletters: Howard Ferguson, Russell Cole

Stories

  • Last Mile Alley · 13 pages

    The Newsboys decide to peddle their papers in some of the worst sections of Suicide Slum, leading to three of them being captured by crooks working for the Big Boss. The Guardian has to rescue them, with the help of Big Words, the only Newsboy to not be captured.

  • King Midas · 13 pages
  • The Trio of Terror · 8 pages
  • The Case of the Poison Parrot · 8 pages
  • Chip Off the Old Block · 1.7 pages
  • Horror Hospital! · 10 pages

Characters

Sylvester PembertonThe Star-Spangled KidPat DuganJim HarperThe GuardianStripesyRobotmanBig WordsTommyGabbyRobert Crane / Paul DennisScrapperDan the Dyna-MiteDan DunbarJohn LawTarantulaTex N. ThomasTNTChuck GraysonPenniless PalmerJoan Carter

Reprinted in

Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen (1954), The Newsboy Legion by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby (2010)

Run and key data from the Grand Comics Database (comics.org), CC BY-SA 4.0.

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