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STAR SPANGLED COMICS #26

Cover Date: November 1943
Cover Price: $.10

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Cover Credits:

Story: "Louie The Lug Goes Literary" (13 Pages)

Credits:

Story	Joe Simon, Jack Kirby
Pencils	Jack Kirby
Editing	Jack Schiff

Feature Character(s):

Guardian

Newsboy Legion:

Big Words

Tommy Thompkins

Gabby

Scrapper

Villain(s):

Louie the Lug, Silver Plait and Mugger Dawes (first appearance for all; three crooks who steal engraving plates and hide them in a book)

Location(s):

Suicide Slum

Story Reprinted in:

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

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Second Story: "Butch Minds The Birdies!" (10 Pages)

Credits:

Art	Hal Sherman
Lettering	Hal Sherman
Editing	Jack Schiff

Feature Character(s):

Star-Spangled Kid (last in World's Finest Comics #11/2)

Stripesy (last in World's Finest Comics #11/2)

Supporting Character(s):

John Pemberton

Villain(s):

Regan and the Butcher Gang (first appearance for all)

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Third Story: "The Case of the Frivolous Fish!" (6 Pages)

Credits:

Art	George Storm
Lettering	George Storm
Editing	Jack Schiff

Feature Character(s):

Penniless Palmer

Supporting Character(s):

Bunny

Oxie

Villain(s):

Bank Robbers (first appearance for all)

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Fourth Story: "The Little Rebel!" (10 Pages)

Credits:

Story	Don Cameron
Art	Chuck Winter
Editing	Jack Schiff

Feature Character(s):

Liberty Belle

Supporting Character(s):

Rick Cannon

Villain(s):

German spies(first appearance for all)

Location(s):

Stackville (first appearance)

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Fifth Story: "... If I Were Robotman!" (7 Pages)

Credits:

Story	Joe Samachson
Art	Jimmy Thompson
Lettering	Jimmy Thompson
Editing	Jack Schiff

Feature Character(s):

Robotman

Villain(s):

Radium thieves (first appearance for all)

Other Character(s):

Harold Smithers (first appearance; builds a suit of Robotman armor)

Comment(s):

Thompson uses a combination of hand lettering and Ames Mechanical lettering.

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