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Star Spangled Comics 19

STAR SPANGLED COMICS #19

Cover Date: April 1943
Cover Price: $.10

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


Story: "The Fuehrer of Suicide Slum" (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

Other Character(s):

Gas-House (first appearance; a kid who's not doing his best for the War Effort)

Location(s):

Suicide Slum

Comment(s):

The majority of the story is a nightmare by Scrapper where the Nazis have taken over America.

Story Reprinted in:

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


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Second Story: "Too Fat to Fight!" (13 Pages)

Credits:

ArtHal Sherman
LetteringHal Sherman
EditingJack Schiff

Feature Character(s):

Star-Spangled Kid (last in issue #17/2; next in Leading Comics #6)
Stripesy (last in issue #17/2; next in Leading Comics #6)

Villain(s):

Nazis (first appearance for all; stealing scrap to sabotage steel plants)

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: "Me, Gangster" (8 Pages)

Credits:

StoryManly Wade Wellman
ArtPierce Rice
EditingJack Schiff

Feature Character(s):

Tarantula (next in flashback in Golden Age Secret Files #1)

Villain(s):

Chips Conrad (first appearance; a crook who thinks that he is cheating death, but dies in prison)

Comment(s):

This story takes place in 1942.
This is the final Tarantula story published in the Golden Age.


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Fourth Story: "The Case of the Prince of Pennies!" (6 Pages)

Credits:

ArtStan Kaye
EditingJack Schiff

Feature Character(s):

Penniless Palmer

Supporting Character(s):

Bunny
Oxie


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Fifth Story: "Power Is Where You Find It!" (7 Pages)

Credits:

ArtLouis Cazeneuve
LetteringLouis Cazeneuve
EditingJack Schiff

Feature Character(s):

T.N.T.
Dyna-Mite

Villain(s):

Schmidt (first appearance; a crook who sabotaged a power plant)
Herr Streicher (first appearance; a Nazi who uses the darkness to sabotage steel plants)


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Sixth Story: "King For A Day!" (10 Pages)

Credits:

StoryJerry Siegel
ArtEd Dobrotka
EditingJack Schiff

Feature Character(s):

Robotman

Villain(s):

King Carter and his gang (first appearance for all; fixes sporting events)

Other Character(s):

George Smith (first appearance; a friend of Bob Crane's and a chess Grandmaster)


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