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Star Spangled Comics 18

STAR SPANGLED COMICS #18

Cover Date: March 1943
Cover Price: $.10

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Cover Credits:
Pencils: Jack Kirby (signed)
Inks: Joe Simon (signed)
Colors: Jack Kirby


Story: "The Education of Iron-Fist Gookin" (13 Pages)

Credits:

StoryJoe Simon, Jack Kirby
PencilsJack Kirby
InksArturo Cazeneuve
LetteringHoward Ferguson
EditingJack Schiff

Feature Character(s):

Guardian
Newsboy Legion:
Big Words
Tommy Thompkins
Gabby
Scrapper

Villain(s):

Sharpey Pierce (first appearance; uses Gookin to take the fall for his crimes)

Other Character(s):

Iron-Fist Gookin (first appearance; a tough ganster-wannna-be who gets framed for crimes)

Location(s):

Suicide Slum

Story Reprinted in:

The Newsboy Legion by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby #1 (February 2010)


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Second Story: "Stripesy vs. The Star-Spangled Kid" (13 Pages)

Credits:

ArtHal Sherman
LetteringHal Sherman
EditingJack Schiff

Feature Character(s):

Star-Spangled Kid (in flashback to his earliest chronologial appearance)
Stripesy (in flashback to his earliest chronologial appearance)

Villain(s):

Nazis (first appearance for all; plan to sabotage the 4th of July celebration in New York City)

Location(s):

New York City, NY

Comment(s):

This story is retold with new details in Secret Origins Vol. 2 #9


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Third Story: "Granny Get Your Gun!" (8 Pages)

Credits:

StoryManly Wade Wellman
EditingJack Schiff

Feature Character(s):

Tarantula

Villain(s):

Cynthia Agatha Donk (first appearance; a crook posing as an elderly heiress to have Tarantula help him commit crimes)


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Fourth Story: "The Mystery of the Phoney Sneeze!" (6 Pages)

Credits:

ArtStan Kaye
EditingJack Schiff

Feature Character(s):

Penniless Palmer

Supporting Character(s):

Bunny
Oxie


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Fifth Story: "Dealer of Doom!" (7 Pages)

Credits:

ArtLouis Cazeneuve
LetteringLouis Cazeneuve
EditingJack Schiff

Feature Character(s):

T.N.T.
Dyna-Mite

Villain(s):

Phineas Smythe (first appearance; an art thief)


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Sixth Story: "Robotman Was Worth His Weight in Gold!" (10 Pages)

Credits:

StoryJerry Siegel
ArtEd Dobrotka
EditingJack Schiff

Feature Character(s):

Robotman

Supporting Character(s):

Chuck Grayson (next in issue #21/6)

Villain(s):

Three crooks (first appearance for all)

Other Character(s):

Professor Izra Yenver (first appearance; creates a way to artificially create Iridium)


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