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Star Spangled Comics 9

STAR SPANGLED COMICS #9

Cover Date: June 1942
Cover Price: $.10

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Cover Credits:
Art: Jack Kirby
Colors: Jack Kirby


Story: "The Rookie Takes the Rap!" (13 Pages)

Credits:

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

Feature Character(s):

Guardian
Newsboy Legion:
Big Words
Tommy Thompkins
Gabby
Scrapper

Villain(s):

"Sure Thing" Kelly (first appearance; frames Harper for bribery)
Dippy the Pickpocket (first appearance)

Location(s):

Suicide Slum

Story Reprinted in:

Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #143/3 (November 1971)
The Newsboy Legion by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby #1 (February 2010)


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Second Story: "Crime By The Chapter" (13 Pages)

Credits:

StoryJerry Siegel
ArtHal Sherman
LetteringHal Sherman
EditingWhitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

Star-Spangled Kid
Stripesy

Villain(s):

Moonglow (last in issue #5; last appearance)
Doctor Weerd (last in issue #7/6; last appearance)
Needle
Confession Charley (P.D. King; first appearance; a mystery writer who uses a story with the deaths of the other three villains to trick them into killing the other underworld leaders so he can take over)


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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 (next in All-Star Squadron #18)

Villain(s):

Mr. Girby and Moller (first appearance for both; plan on using a hurricane to look the small island)

Location(s):

Souciyan (first appearance; a small vacation island in the West Indies)


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Fourth Story: "Case of the Warbling Worm" (6 Pages)

Credits:

StoryR. L. Ross
ArtR. L. Ross
LetteringR. L. Ross
EditingWhitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

Penniless Palmer

Supporting Character(s):

Bunny
Oxie

Villain(s):

tunneling bank robbers (first appearance for all)

Other Character(s):

Professor Dean (first appearance; teaches a worm to sing)


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Fifth Story: "The Mystery of the Mother Goose Mob" (7 Pages)

Credits:

ArtPaul Norris
LetteringPaul Norris
EditingWhitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

T.N.T.
Dyna-Mite

Villain(s):

Mother Goose (George E. Ready; first appearance; bankrupt millionaire who uses nursery rhymes to base his crimes)
Maugnant Triplets (first appearance; three midgets who pose as children)

Location(s):

New York City, NY


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Sixth Story: "Case of the Vanishing Millions" (10 Pages)

Credits:

StoryJerry Siegel
PencilsLeo Nowak
InksJohn Sikela
EditingWhitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

Robotman (next in Justice League of America #193/2)

Supporting Character(s):

Chuck Grayson

Villain(s):

Human Magnet (first appearance)


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