Comic Title: Star Spangled Comics #13
Publisher: DC (Detective Comics, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: October 1942
Approx. On Sale Date: August 5, 1942 Copyright Date August 1, 1942
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1942
Until 1958 DC did not report actual on sale dates to the copyright office
The publication dates listed in LoC records are NOT release dates.

Frequency: Monthly
Cover Price: $0.10
Page Count: 64
Editor: Fredric Whitney Ellsworth

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

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

Writer/Inker: Joe Simon
Penciller: Jack Kirby

Reprinted In:
Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #147 (1972)
Newsboy Legion by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby Vol. 1 HC (2010)

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.