The Newsboy Legion by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby

ISBN: 9781848565760
Dimensions: 258 x 170 mm
Hardback: 240pp
Publication date: 28 May 2010
Illustration detail: Colour comic strip
All authors: Joe Simon , Jack Kirby

Joe Simon and Jack Kirby created one of the most enduring American heroes in 1940 with the first issue of Captain America Comics from Timely Comics — the company that became Marvel Comics. Simon proved to be a brilliant editor, writer, penciller, inker, and businessman, serving as an editor for Archie, Harvey, Fox, Crestwood, and Simon and Kirby’s own company.

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Jack Kirby

Jack Kirby is perhaps the most important artist ever in superhero comics.The “King” co-created household names like The Incredible Hulk, the Fantastic Four and the X-Men for Marvel, later moving to DC for Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen, New Gods, Kamandi, and OMAC.

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Synopsis

Set in the early 1940s, The Newsboy Legion is the first of Joe Simon and Jack Kirby’s very successful “kid gang” comics, featuring a group of scrappy boys who work together to stop crime in their home of Suicide Slum. Watched over by adult hero The Guardian – a.k.a. policeman Jim Harper – The Newsboy Legion battle crime through their own newspaper reporting, taking on crooked politicians, slum lords, fifth column agents and much more.