Golden Age Appearances of the Star-Spangled Kid (1940-1955)
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Issue |
Cover
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Comment |
Reprinted In |
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Action #40 |
No |
1st Appearance, I: Stripsey |
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Star Spangled Comics #1 |
Yes |
I: no title) - thwart saboteurs, II: (no title)- vs. Dr. Weerd (James Stanton) and his robot |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Star Spangled Comics #6 |
Yes |
I:"Citadel of Crime" - vs. Dr. Weerd, II:(no title) - vs. Nazi agents targeting the Statue of Liberty |
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Star Spangled Comics #7 |
No |
"The Picture That Killed" - vs. The Needle and Dr. Weerd |
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Star Spangled Comics #8 |
No |
(no title) - I: King Midas, vs. King Midas, a criminal with a golden touch |
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Star Spangled Comics #9 |
No |
"Crime By the Chapter" - vs. Moonglow, The Needle and Dr. Weerd |
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Star Spangled Comics #10 |
No |
"The Education of Eastside Eggbert" - vs. Eastside Eggbert |
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Star Spangled Comics #11 |
No |
"Case of the Crippled Car" - vs. Mr. Koto and his Japanese spy ring stealing rubber |
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Star Spangled Comics #12 |
No |
"Case of the Precious Peach" - vs. crooks from Georgia |
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Star Spangled Comics #13 |
No |
"The Man Who Could Make Dreams Comics True" - vs. Nemo Morphis and Japanese agents |
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Star Spangled Comics #14 |
No |
"Sylvester acts his age" - rounds up the Krieg gang |
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Star Spangled Comics #15 |
No |
"The College of Crime" - breaks up criminal racket and captures the Needle |
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Star Spangled Comics #16 |
No |
"The Perils of the Penny Plunders" - rounds up the O'Grady mob |
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Star Spangled Comics #17 |
No |
"Spy City" - rounds Axis agents in Arizona |
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Star Spangled Comics #18 |
No |
"Stripsey vs. The Star-Spangled Kid" - Origin revealed |
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Star Spangled Comics #19 |
No |
"Too Fat To Fight" - helps Stripsey lose weight |
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Star Spangled Comics #20 |
No |
"The Needle in the Haystack" - vs. The Needle |
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Star Spangled Comics #21 |
No |
"Pop Goes the Weasel" - vs. a gangster known as the Weasel |
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Star Spangled Comics #22 |
No |
"Stripsey Becomes A Brain-Truster" - foils robbery as Stripsey tries to prove his intellectual worth |
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Star Spangled Comics #23 |
No |
"Sweet Land of Liberty" - captures Nazi agents while at camp |
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Star Spangled Comics #24 |
No |
"The Mail Order Mob" - breaks up gang smuggling criminal paraphernalia through the mail |
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Star Spangled Comics #25 |
No |
"Mr. Gadget goes to Town" - vs. Mr. Gadget |
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Star Spangled Comics #26 |
No |
"Butch Minds the Birdies" - foils prison breakout |
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Star Spangled Comics #27 |
No |
"Patron of Plunder" - captures Professor Lorenz |
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Star Spangled Comics #28 |
No |
"The Mirror of Madness" - vs. Mr. Gadget |
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Star Spangled Comics #29 |
No |
"The Piccadilly Seal" - captures crooks using a trained seal |
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Star Spangled Comics #30 |
No |
"Pennies from Heaven" - vs. Gentleman Jack, a pick pocket |
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Star Spangled Comics #31 |
No |
“Arson Larceny” – captures some painters turned to arson |
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Star Spangled Comics #32 |
No |
“The Numismatist’s Nose” – helps a coin collector targeted by crooks. |
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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 |
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Star Spangled Comics #34 |
No |
“A Greek Tragedy” – A man from Greece looking for job runs afoul of crooks |
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Star Spangled Comics #35 |
No |
“Short Weight Blues” – captures crooks targeting a trucking company |
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Star Spangled Comics #36 |
No |
“Kidnapping in Ten Easy Lessons” – Sylvester gets kidnapped when his father tries to make him more independent |
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Star Spangled Comics #37 |
No |
“Cowboy Crooks” – captures a gang of thieves dressed ass cowboys, Cousin Ambrose appears |
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Star Spangled Comics #38 |
No |
“Pat Dugan Turns Crook” – Dugan gets framed and everyone thinks he has gone crooked |
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Star Spangled Comics #39 |
No |
Model Muggs – Stripsey gets pegged as a model and runs into crooks at the studio |
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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 |
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Star Spangled Comics #41 |
No |
"Pearls of Crime" - catches jewel thief Sparkles Morgan |
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Star Spangled Comics #42 |
No |
"Peril and Plunder!" battles crooks trying to rob a resort hotel. |
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Star Spangled Comics #43 |
No |
"Mister Gadget learns a lesson" - vs. Mr. Gadget |
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Star Spangled Comics #44 |
No |
“The Saga of Swindle” – captures crooks smuggling loot in books |
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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 |
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Star Spangled Comics #46 |
No |
“Where There’s Smoke, There’s Crime!” – v. Crooks masquerading as firemen |
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Star Spangled Comics #47 |
No |
"The Cat's Paw" - breaks up cult |
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Star Spangled Comics #48 |
No |
"When Dreams Come True" - vs. crooks using post-hypnotic suggestions to help their crimes |
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Star Spangled Comics #49 |
No |
"The Comet Kid and Barsey" - vs. crooks imitating the heroes |
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Star Spangled Comics #50 |
No |
"Roundabout Robbery" - rescues bank from crooks |
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Star Spangled Comics #51 |
No |
"Mr. Gadget Breaks Jail" - vs. Mr. Gadget |
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Star Spangled Comics #52 |
No |
"The Beggar Band" - captures gangs disguised as beggars |
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Star Spangled Comics #53 |
No |
"Clip Joint for Crime" - vs. the Zebra and his gang |
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Star Spangled Comics #54 |
No |
"Sylvester Sits It Out" - catches Buzz-Saw Bertie |
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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 |
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Star Spangled Comics #56 |
No |
“School for Problem Children!” – Sylvester’s father sends him to a reform school where he runs into crooks |
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Star Spangled Comics #57 |
No |
“The Flaming Test!” – Sylvester is sent to camp and has to handle a forest fire |
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Star Spangled Comics #58 |
No |
“The Department of Clever Crimes!” – clears the name of a department store detective |
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Star Spangled Comics #59 |
No |
"The Great Disappearing Act" - captures criminal stage magicians |
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Star Spangled Comics #60 |
No |
“Crown Prince for a Day!” – prevents the kidnapping of Prince Anton of Montovia |
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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 |
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Star Spangled Comics #62 |
No |
“The Crime Carmen” – vs. crooks at an oprea |
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Star Spangled Comics #63 |
No |
“The Star of Destiny” – vs. an astronomer turned to crook astrologer |
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Star Spangled Comics #64 |
No |
“The Felon in the Family” – A crook pretends to be a relative of the Pembertons to rob the family |
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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 |
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Star Spangled Comics #66 |
No |
"The Ice Cream Crimes" - defeats Sad Dan, the Second-Story Man |
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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 |
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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 |
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Star Spangled Comics #69 |
No |
“A Hunting We Will Go!” – Captures jilted heir when he tries to rob the estate that he was denied |
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Star Spangled Comics #70 |
No |
“The Vanishing Microfilm” – recover an missing atomic energy formula |
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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 |
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Star Spangled Comics #72 |
No |
“Taxi to Trouble” – captures crooks through a series of cab rides |
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Star Spangled Comics #73 |
No |
“Flight of the Crooked Bee” – Music lessons for Sylvester runs afoul of crooks |
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Star Spangled Comics #74 |
No |
“Looters of the Lake” – defeats crooks using a retired admiral’s experimental submarine tech |
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Star Spangled Comics #75 |
No |
"The Crooked Ghost" - vs crook disguised as a colonial ghost |
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Star Spangled Comics #76 |
No |
"Battle of the Century" - vs. crooks at boxing match |
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Star Spangled Comics #77 |
No |
"The Big Bad Banker" - vs. crooks disguised as Indian's at 50th National Bank |
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Star Spangled Comics #78 |
No |
"The Pin-Ball Crimes" - vs. Pin-Ball, a criminal basing crimes on the game |
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Star Spangled Comics #79 |
No |
"Gentleman Pat Dugan" - captures crooks masquerading as dignitaries |
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Star Spangled Comics #80 |
No |
"Dance of Danger" - captures crooked dancing instructor targeting a wealthy ball |
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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 |
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Star Spangled Comics #82 |
No |
"The Crimes of Magic" - Merry, becomes The Girl of 1,000 Gimmicks, vs. Presto, a magician turned to crime |
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Star Spangled Comics #83 |
No |
"Adventures of the Rope" - I: The Rope,vs. The Rope |
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Star Spangled Comics #84 |
No |
"The Return of the Rope" - vs. The Rope |
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World's Finest #6 |
No |
"The Adventure of the King of Escape" - vs. The Eel |
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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 |
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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 |
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World's Finest #9 |
No |
“no title” – Vs bank robbers, Joker and Batman and Robin Cameo |
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World's Finest #10 |
No |
“no title” – I: Mr. Gadget, vs. Mr. Gadget |
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World's Finest #11 |
No |
“The Little Land That Wasn’t There” – thwart crooks while on vacation in Florida |
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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 |
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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 |
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World's Finest #14 |
No |
“Thuggery in the Theatre” –crooks run crimes through a variety of theatre acts |
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World's Finest #15 |
No |
“Shelter for Shenanigans” – defeats crooks targeting Claudia Pemberton’s work shelter |
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World's Finest #16 |
No |
"The Fantastic Fans" - captures crooks selling booby-trapped fans to future victims |
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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 |
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World's Finest #18 |
No |
“False Paradise for Felons” – nabs crooks with an electricity racket |
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