Golden Age Appearances of the Star-Spangled Kid (1940-1955)

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Issue

Cover 
Appearance?

Comment

Reprinted In

Action #40

No

1st Appearance, I: Stripsey


Star Spangled Comics #1

Yes

I: no title) - thwart saboteurs, II: (no title)- vs. Dr. Weerd (James Stanton) and his robot


Star Spangled Comics #2

Yes

I: "Vortex of Doom"- vs. Dr. Weerd, II: (no title) - vs. Nazi agents, Stripsey revealed as former circus aerialist, II - "The Ring of Rags" - gathers up crooks working as beggars, III  - (no title) - rounds up circle of spies


Star Spangled Comics #3

Yes

I: no title)  - vs. Dr. Weerd, reflects on events in #2, II: (no title) - vs. fifth columnists, III: (no title) - travels to Europe to help Rudolph Hess escape to Scotland


Star Spangled Comics #4

Yes

I:(no title) - I: The Needle, vs. The Needle, II: (no title) - I: Mr Ghool, vs. Mr. Ghool, III:  "The Flying Buzz-Saw" - vs. Dr. Weerd


Star Spangled Comics #5

Yes

I: (no title) - I: Moonglow (Egbert Whipple), vs. Moonglow, II: (no title) - vs. Dr. Weerd, III: (no title) - vs. The Needle


Star Spangled Comics #6

Yes

I:"Citadel of Crime" - vs. Dr. Weerd, II:(no title) - vs. Nazi agents targeting the Statue of Liberty


Star Spangled Comics #7

No

"The Picture That Killed" - vs. The Needle and Dr. Weerd


Star Spangled Comics #8

No

(no title) - I: King Midas, vs. King Midas, a criminal with a golden touch


Star Spangled Comics #9

No

"Crime By the Chapter" - vs. Moonglow, The Needle and Dr. Weerd


Star Spangled Comics #10

No

"The Education of Eastside Eggbert" - vs. Eastside Eggbert


Star Spangled Comics #11

No

"Case of the Crippled Car" - vs. Mr. Koto and his Japanese spy ring stealing rubber


Star Spangled Comics #12

No

"Case of the Precious Peach" - vs. crooks from Georgia


Star Spangled Comics #13

No

"The Man Who Could Make Dreams Comics True" - vs. Nemo Morphis and Japanese agents


Star Spangled Comics #14

No

"Sylvester acts his age" - rounds up the Krieg gang


Star Spangled Comics #15

No

"The College of Crime" - breaks up criminal racket and captures the Needle


Star Spangled Comics #16

No

"The Perils of the Penny Plunders" - rounds up the O'Grady mob


Star Spangled Comics #17

No

"Spy City" - rounds Axis agents in Arizona


Star Spangled Comics #18

No

"Stripsey vs. The Star-Spangled Kid" - Origin revealed


Star Spangled Comics #19

No

"Too Fat To Fight" - helps Stripsey lose weight


Star Spangled Comics #20

No

"The Needle in the Haystack" - vs. The Needle


Star Spangled Comics #21

No

"Pop Goes the Weasel" - vs.  a gangster known as the Weasel


Star Spangled Comics #22

No

"Stripsey Becomes A Brain-Truster" - foils robbery as Stripsey tries to prove his intellectual worth


Star Spangled Comics #23

No

"Sweet Land of Liberty" - captures Nazi agents while at camp


Star Spangled Comics #24

No

"The Mail Order Mob" - breaks up gang smuggling criminal paraphernalia through the mail


Star Spangled Comics #25

No

"Mr. Gadget goes to Town" - vs. Mr. Gadget


Star Spangled Comics #26

No

"Butch Minds the Birdies" - foils prison breakout


Star Spangled Comics #27

No

"Patron of Plunder" - captures Professor Lorenz


Star Spangled Comics #28

No

"The Mirror of Madness" - vs. Mr. Gadget


Star Spangled Comics #29

No

"The Piccadilly Seal" - captures crooks using a trained seal


Star Spangled Comics #30

No

"Pennies from Heaven" - vs. Gentleman Jack, a pick pocket


Star Spangled Comics #31

No

“Arson Larceny” – captures some painters turned to arson


Star Spangled Comics #32

No

“The Numismatist’s Nose” – helps a coin collector targeted by crooks.


Star Spangled Comics #33

No

“The Fighter They Couldn’t Floor” – helps a fighter with an unbreakable jaw escape hi shifty manager and become a real boxer


Star Spangled Comics #34

No

“A Greek Tragedy” – A man from Greece looking for  job runs afoul of crooks


Star Spangled Comics #35

No

“Short Weight Blues” – captures crooks targeting a trucking company


Star Spangled Comics #36

No

“Kidnapping in Ten Easy Lessons” – Sylvester gets kidnapped when his father tries to make him more independent


Star Spangled Comics #37

No

“Cowboy Crooks” – captures a gang of thieves dressed ass cowboys, Cousin Ambrose appears


Star Spangled Comics #38

No

“Pat Dugan Turns Crook” – Dugan gets framed and everyone thinks he has gone crooked


Star Spangled Comics #39

No

Model Muggs – Stripsey gets pegged as a model and runs into crooks at the studio


Star Spangled Comics #40

No

“Walnuts with Crushed Crooks on the Side” – A reformed crook carves faces on walnuts as an art form but his former gang tries to trip him up


Star Spangled Comics #41

No

"Pearls of Crime" - catches jewel thief Sparkles Morgan


Star Spangled Comics #42

No

"Peril and Plunder!" battles crooks trying to rob a resort hotel.   


Star Spangled Comics #43

No

"Mister Gadget learns a lesson" - vs. Mr. Gadget


Star Spangled Comics #44

No

“The Saga of Swindle” – captures crooks smuggling loot in books


Star Spangled Comics #45

No

“The Noisy Necktie” – A mild-mannered guy buys a loud necktie which seems to jumpstart his personality and runs him afoul of crooks


Star Spangled Comics #46

No

“Where There’s Smoke, There’s Crime!” – v. Crooks masquerading as firemen


Star Spangled Comics #47

No

"The Cat's Paw" - breaks up cult


Star Spangled Comics #48

No

"When Dreams Come True" - vs. crooks using post-hypnotic suggestions to help their crimes


Star Spangled Comics #49

No

"The Comet Kid and Barsey" - vs. crooks imitating the heroes


Star Spangled Comics #50

No

"Roundabout Robbery" - rescues bank from crooks


Star Spangled Comics #51

No

"Mr. Gadget Breaks Jail" - vs. Mr. Gadget


Star Spangled Comics #52

No

"The Beggar Band" - captures gangs disguised as beggars


Star Spangled Comics #53

No

"Clip Joint for Crime" - vs. the Zebra and his gang


Star Spangled Comics #54

No

"Sylvester Sits It Out" - catches Buzz-Saw Bertie


Star Spangled Comics #55

No

"The Jigsaw Puzzle Murder" – Baldy the counterfeiter murders a puzzle painter and os captured by the Kid and Stripsey

Superboy #185

Star Spangled Comics #56

No

“School for Problem Children!” – Sylvester’s father sends him to a reform school where he runs into crooks


Star Spangled Comics #57

No

“The Flaming Test!” – Sylvester is sent to camp and has to handle a forest fire


Star Spangled Comics #58

No

“The Department of Clever Crimes!” – clears the name of a department store detective


Star Spangled Comics #59

No

"The Great Disappearing Act" - captures criminal stage magicians


Star Spangled Comics #60

No

“Crown Prince for a Day!” – prevents the kidnapping of Prince Anton of Montovia


Star Spangled Comics #61

No

“The Men in the Iron Masks!” – vs Logan, a criminal who makes honest men commit his crimes by trapping them into cuboidal metal masks


Star Spangled Comics #62

No

“The Crime Carmen” – vs. crooks at an oprea


Star Spangled Comics #63

No

“The Star of Destiny” – vs. an astronomer turned to crook astrologer


Star Spangled Comics #64

No

“The Felon in the Family” – A crook pretends to be a relative of the Pembertons to rob the family


Star Spangled Comics #65

No

“Dugan Dons A Top Hat!” – When Pemberton Sr’s car is accidently destroyed, the Kid and Stripsey have to improvise while running afoul of crooks


Star Spangled Comics #66

No

"The Ice Cream Crimes" - defeats Sad Dan, the Second-Story Man


Star Spangled Comics #67

No

“Murder Sets A Snare” – Years after a treasure hunter kills most of his team, his guilty mind snaps and leads him after the others


Star Spangled Comics #68

No

"Adventure Express" - vs. False Face, a former enemy with no documented SSK stories,  Possibly minion of Black Star from Leading Comics #2


Star Spangled Comics #69

No

“A Hunting We Will Go!” – Captures jilted heir when he tries to rob the estate that he was denied


Star Spangled Comics #70

No

“The Vanishing Microfilm” – recover an missing atomic energy formula


Star Spangled Comics #71

No

“The Thief with 1.000 Lamps” – A criminal named Aladdin commits crimes with a series of traps hidden in lamps


Star Spangled Comics #72

No

“Taxi to Trouble” – captures crooks through a series of cab rides


Star Spangled Comics #73

No

“Flight of the Crooked Bee” – Music lessons for Sylvester runs afoul of crooks


Star Spangled Comics #74

No

“Looters of the Lake” – defeats crooks using a retired admiral’s experimental submarine tech


Star Spangled Comics #75

No

"The Crooked Ghost" - vs crook disguised as a colonial ghost


Star Spangled Comics #76

No

"Battle of the Century" - vs. crooks at boxing match


Star Spangled Comics #77

No

"The Big Bad Banker" - vs. crooks disguised as Indian's at 50th National Bank


Star Spangled Comics #78

No

"The Pin-Ball Crimes" - vs. Pin-Ball, a criminal basing crimes on the game


Star Spangled Comics #79

No

"Gentleman Pat Dugan" - captures crooks masquerading as dignitaries


Star Spangled Comics #80

No

"Dance of Danger" - captures crooked dancing instructor targeting a wealthy ball


Star Spangled Comics #81

No

"The Human Fly" - I: Merry Pemberton, the adopted sister of Sylvester Pemberton and the daughter of petty criminal Fly-Foot Cramer


Star Spangled Comics #82

No

"The Crimes of Magic" - Merry, becomes The Girl of 1,000 Gimmicks, vs. Presto, a magician turned to crime


Star Spangled Comics #83

No

"Adventures of the Rope" - I: The Rope,vs. The Rope


Star Spangled Comics #84

No

"The Return of the Rope" - vs. The Rope


World's Finest #6

No

"The Adventure of the King of Escape" - vs. The Eel


World's Finest #7

No

"The Case of the Jinxed Skyscraper" - vs. Mr. Ghool who is trying to destroy a skyscraper to recover loot

Flashback #28

World's Finest #8

No

"Stripsey- Solo Sleuth" - After a falling out, the team solves a case and then resolves to work together

Flashback #38

World's Finest #9

No

“no title” – Vs bank robbers, Joker and Batman and Robin Cameo

 

World's Finest #10

No

“no title” – I: Mr. Gadget, vs. Mr. Gadget

 

World's Finest #11

No

“The Little Land That Wasn’t There” – thwart crooks while on vacation in Florida

 

World's Finest #12

No

"Stripsey Went To College" – Dugan goes to college but disrupts their sports and tangles with crooks til they graduate him to get him to leave


World's Finest #13

No

“The Stars of the Silver Screen” – The Pembertons try to revive a failing studio and run afoul of crooks in the process

 

World's Finest #14

No

“Thuggery in the Theatre” –crooks run crimes through a variety of theatre acts

 

World's Finest #15

No

“Shelter for Shenanigans” – defeats crooks targeting Claudia Pemberton’s work shelter

 

World's Finest #16

No

"The Fantastic Fans" - captures crooks selling booby-trapped fans to future victims


World's Finest #17

No

“The Clown of Crime” – crooks con a midget into helping them with a crime until the Kid and Stripsey intervene

 

World's Finest #18

No

“False Paradise for Felons” – nabs crooks with an electricity racket