Comic Title: Newsboy Legion by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby Vol. 1 HC
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2010
On Sale Date: March 24, 2010 Direct Market Date March 24, 2010
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Direct Market Date March 24, 2010
Source: Previews, #254

Cover Price: $49.99
Page Count: 360
Editor: Scott Nybakken

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "The Scoop of Suicide Slums"
Pages: 13

Feature(s):
Newsboy Legion (of Earth-2)

Writer/Inker: Joe Simon
Penciller: Jack Kirby

Reprinted From:
Star Spangled Comics #13 (1942)

Feature Character(s)

• Newsboy Legion (last appearance in All-Star Squadron #44; next appearance in Star Spangled Comics #14)
• Gabby (last appearance in All-Star Squadron #44; next appearance in Star Spangled Comics #14)
• Big Words (last appearance in All-Star Squadron #44; next appearance in Star Spangled Comics #14)
• Tommy (last appearance in All-Star Squadron #44; next appearance in Star Spangled Comics #14)
• Scrapper (last appearance in All-Star Squadron #44; next appearance in Star Spangled Comics #14)

Supporting Character(s)

• Guardian (last appearance in All-Star Squadron #44; next appearance in All-Star Squadron #50)

Villain(s)

• Franklin D. Clark and his partner (no further appearances)
• Butch Benson, Windy Wicks, and Slim Slavin (no further appearances)

Synopsis:
To help newspaper circulation, the Newsboy Legion publishes their own paper dealing with the local problems in Suicide Slum. Their stories help to capture several hoods hiding in town, and the paper is a success.

Franklin Clark of a much larger newspaper offers a job to Big Words, forcing the boy to leave his friends behind. However, Big Words discovers that Clark is really working with crooks and hired the boy in order silence him. The Newsboy Legion and the Guardian come to his rescue, exposing the crooked publisher in the process.