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STAR SPANGLED COMICS #20
Cover Date: May 1943
Cover Price: $.10
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Cover Credits:
Pencils: Jack Kirby (signed)
Inks: Joe Simon (signed)
Colors: Jack Kirby
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Credits:
| Story | Joe Simon, Jack Kirby |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Steve Brody |
| Lettering | Howard Ferguson |
| Editing | Jack Schiff |
Feature Character(s):
Other Character(s):
- Suicide Zeke Potts (first appearance; convinced to become a boxer)
Location(s):
Story Reprinted in:
- The Newsboy Legion by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby #1 (February 2010)
Credits:
| Art | Hal Sherman |
| Lettering | Hal Sherman |
| Editing | Jack Schiff |
Feature Character(s):
- Star-Spangled Kid (last in World's Finest Comics #9/3)
- Stripesy (last in World's Finest Comics #9/3)
Supporting Character(s):
- John Pemberton
Villain(s):
Location(s):
- New York City, NY
- A large midwestern farm
Credits:
| Story | Don Cameron |
| Art | Chuck Winter |
| Editing | Jack Schiff |
Feature Character(s):
- Liberty Belle (last in All-Star Comics 80-Page Giant #1/3; a columnist and commentator on the Green Network; see Comments)
Supporting Character(s):
- Rick Cannon (a Captain in Army Intelligence (G-2); last in All-Star Squadron #35)
Villain(s):
- Nazis (first appearance for all)
Comment(s):
- The Green Network mentioned in this story is a play on the Blue and Red Networks once part of the NBC Radio Network. One of the parts of the Green Network may be the Apex Broadcasting Company or WXYZ seen in the Green Lantern stories, but this is unconfirmed.
Credits:
| Art | Stan Kaye |
| Editing | Jack Schiff |
Feature Character(s):
Supporting Character(s):
- Bunny
- Oxie
Credits:
| Art | Louis Cazeneuve |
| Lettering | Louis Cazeneuve |
| Editing | Jack Schiff |
Feature Character(s):
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)
Location(s):
- Placer Gulch (first appearance)
Comment(s):
- This story takes place in the spring (probably of 1942).
Credits:
| Story | Jerry Siegel |
| Art | John Daly |
| Editing | Jack Schiff |
Feature Character(s):
Villain(s):
- Dusty Merton's old gang (first appearance for all; trying to find hidden gold)