Unofficial Star Spangled Comics Index

STAR SPANGLED COMICS #29

Cover Date: February 1944
Cover Price: $.10

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Cover Credits:
Inks: Arturo Cazeneuve

Story: "Cabbages and Comics" (11 Pages)

Feature Character(s):

Guardian

Newsboy Legion

Big Words

Tommy Thompkins

Gabby

Scrapper

Villain(s):

Beetlenose (first appearance; a diamond thief)

Location(s):

Suicide Slum

Story Reprinted in:

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

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Second Story: "The Piccadilly Seal!" (10 Pages)

Credits:

Art	Hal Sherman
Lettering	Hal Sherman

Feature Character(s):

Star-Spangled Kid (last in World's Finest Comics #12/2)

Stripesy (last in World's Finest Comics #12/2)

Villain(s):

Piccadilly Seal (first appearance; an English pickpocket with a trained seal who teams with two other crooks for bigger crimes)

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Third Story: "Thar's Gold in Them Thar Hills!" (6 Pages)

Credits:

Art	George Storm
Lettering	George Storm

Feature Character(s):

Penniless Palmer

Supporting Character(s):

Bunny

Oxie

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Fourth Story: "Catalyst For Catastrophe!" (10 Pages)

Credits:

Story	Don Cameron
Art	Chuck Winter

Feature Character(s):

Liberty Belle

Supporting Character(s):

Rick Cannon

Villain(s):

Nazis(first appearance for all)

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Fifth Story: "Robbie, The Robotdog!" (7 Pages)

Credits:

Art	Jimmy Thompson
Lettering	Jimmy Thompson
Editing	Jack Schiff

Feature Character(s):

Robotman

Supporting Character(s):

Chuck Grayson (last in Star Spangled Comics #22/6; next in flashback in DC Comics Presents #31/2)

Robbie the Robotdog (first appearance; a robotdog built by Crane based on the ideas of Professor Mugge; next in issue #31/6)

Comment(s):

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

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