Star Spangled Comics was the title of a comic book

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 series published by DC Comics

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 which ran for 130 issues from 1941

1942 in comics

-January:* All-Winners Comics #3 - Timely Comics* Captain America Comics #10 - Timely Comics* Daring Mystery Comics #8 - final issue, cancelled by Timely Comics...

 through 1952

1952 in comics

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. At that point it was retitled Star Spangled War Stories and lasted another 200+ issues until 1977

1977 in comics

- Year overall :* Wendy and Richard Pini establish WaRP Graphics.* Jan and Dean Mullaney establish Eclipse Comics.* The United Kingdom's Eagle Awards are established.* Bob Brown dies at age 62.* Ciao magazine is launched.-January:...

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Publication history

Star Spangled Comics started out as a superhero

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 book, featuring the adventures of the Star-Spangled Kid

Sylvester Pemberton

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 and Stripesy. Later, the title starred the Joe Simon

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 and Jack Kirby

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-created Newsboy Legion

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The Newsboy Legion are fictional characters, a kid gang in the DC Comics Universe. Created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, they appeared in their own self-titled feature which ran from Star Spangled Comics #7 to Star Spangled Comics #64 .-Pre-Crisis version:A group of orphans, living on the streets...

, and then a series of stories featuring Robin, the Boy Wonder

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. The Robin features began in issue #65 and continued through the end of the title with issue #130, and primarily featured Robin solo adventures, but also included some occasional cameos by Batman

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. In the late 1940s

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, the title was fronted by Tomahawk

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Tomahawk is a comic book character whose adventures were published by DC Comics during the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s as a backup feature in Star Spangled Comics and World's Finest Comics and in his own eponymous series...

, a western feature that quickly graduated to its own magazine. In the early 1950s

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, the title became dominated by horror

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 features, and by the end of its run the book switched to a war

War comics

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 format; at which point it was rebooted to become Star Spangled War Stories.

The Star Spangled Comics title was used again in 1999 as the title of one issue of the "Justice Society Returns" storyline.