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Star Spangled Comics 10

STAR SPANGLED COMICS #10

Cover Date: July 1942
Cover Price: $.10

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Cover Credits:
Art: Jack Kirby
Colors: Joe Simon


Story: "Kings for a Day!" (13 Pages)

Credits:

StoryJoe Simon, Jack Kirby
PencilsJack Kirby
InksJoe Simon
LetteringHoward Ferguson
EditingWhitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

Guardian (next in All-Star Squadron #25)
Newsboy Legion:
Big Words (elected "Mayor for a Day"; next in All-Star Squadron #25)
Tommy Thompkins (elected "Sanitation Commissioner for a Day"; next in All-Star Squadron #25)
Gabby (elected "District Attorney for a Day"; next in All-Star Squadron #25)
Scrapper (elected "Police Commissioner for a Day"; next in All-Star Squadron #25)

Villain(s):

The Mark (Mark Mangle; first appearance; overlord of crime gangs)
Crawler, Tiny, Tops and Gunner (first appearance for all; heads of smaller gangs that pull crimes while the Boys are doing their jobs)

Location(s):

Suicide Slum

Story Reprinted in:

Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #144/3 (December 1971)
The Newsboy Legion by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby #1 (February 2010)


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Second Story: "The Education of East-Side Egbert" (13 Pages)

Credits:

StoryJerry Siegel
ArtHal Sherman
LetteringHal Sherman
EditingWhitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

Star-Spangled Kid (next in Leading Comics #3/All-Star Squadron #29)
Stripesy (next in Leading Comics #3/All-Star Squadron #29)

Villain(s):

East-Side Egbert and his gang (first appearance for all; uses a night school class for an alibi)

Comment(s):

This story takes place on the evening of January 15th.


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Third Story: "Storm Over Souciyan..." (8 Pages)

Credits:

StoryManly Wade Wellman
ArtHal Sharp
LetteringHal Sharp
EditingWhitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

Tarantula (last in Young All-Stars #9)

Supporting Character(s):

Olga (last in All-Star Squadron #25)

Villain(s):

"Buggsy" Bonner (first appearance; slightly crazy criminal who gathers a gang using insect motives)
"Scorpion" Sykes, "Cricket" Crode and Miss Moth (first appearance for all; criminals with insect nicknames)


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Fourth Story: "Case of the Petrified Poet" (6 Pages)

Credits:

ArtKosti Ruohomaa
LetteringKosti Ruohomaa
EditingWhitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

Penniless Palmer

Supporting Character(s):

Bunny
Oxie

Villain(s):

Potsy and Miggs (first appearance for both)

Other Character(s):

Cecil Pease (first appearance; head of a Poets convention)
Kirby (first appearance; a high-society private investigator)


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Fifth Story: "The Case of the Spendthrift Miser" (7 Pages)

Credits:

ArtPaul Norris
LetteringPaul Norris
EditingWhitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

T.N.T.
Dyna-Mite

Villain(s):

unnamed thieves (first appearance for both; threaten miser to give up his gold)


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Sixth Story: "The Murder Master!" (10 Pages)

Credits:

StoryJerry Siegel
PencilsSam Citron
InksGeorge Roussos
EditingWhitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

Robotman (last in All-Star Squadron #12)

Supporting Character(s):

Chuck Grayson

Villain(s):

Murder Master (Carl Denton; first appearance; trying to get revenge of Paul Dennis using several high-tech weapons)


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