Dates
- Cover date
- October 1987
- On sale
- June 16, 1987
- Pages
- 52
Editions and covers (3)
Copies of #19 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.
- Direct edition$1.25 cover
Direct
No UPC barcode in the corner box: direct editions show artwork, a logo or a blank box there.
Source ↗ - Newsstand edition$1.25 cover
Newsstand
A UPC barcode in the cover's corner box.
Barcode 0709893176610 · shared with another edition
This edition’s page - Canadian price edition1.75 CAD cover
Canadian
Printed cover price 1.75 CAD.
Barcode 0709893176610 · shared with another edition
This edition’s page
Creators
Stories
- The Coming of... Uncle Sam · 18 pages
Uncle Sam helps Buddy Smith get the men who killed his grandfather and then the two show the small town of Glen Valley they can stand up to the Black Legion.
- The Secret Origin of the Guardian and the Newsboy Legion · 20 pages
Jim Harper becomes the Guardian to capture some crooks. Later, in his civilian identity, he agrees to vouch for four wayward youths, keeping them from juvenile detention. These youths become the Newsboy Legion.
Publisher’s description
In the winter in 1777, Revolutionary Patriot Samuel was killed by Hessian mercenaries, whom he'd decoyed away from a crucial supply wagon train bound for Valley Forge. As he lay dying, Uncle Sam appeared to him, and had his own face and build, and asked him “Are you willing to give up Eternal Rest, to help me defend our country always?”