- Hardcover: 360 pages
- Publisher: DC Comics; Reissue edition (Mar 30 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1401225934
- ISBN-13: 978-1401225933
- Product Dimensions: 17.4 x 2.3 x 26.6 cm
- Shipping Weight: 222 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #57,790 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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 pre-teen 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.
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3.8 out of 5 stars (4 customer reviews)
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Great Material - Poor Packaging, April 5 2010
By Christopher Fama - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Newsboy Legion Vol. 1 Featuring Joe Simon & Jack Kirby (Hardcover)
Simon and Kirby created Captain America, then jumped over to DC to work their magic. The art is awesome in this book, and the reproduction is very well done for a scanned book - far superior to DC's Simon and Kirby Sandman.Both of these DC Simon and Kirby reprints suffer by not reproducing the comics at their orginal size, instead jamming the contents into today's smaller format. Unfortunatly, there are lots of panels and detail on these pages - neither of which are served by a smaller size. Fans may be irritated by the gigantic blank gutter at the bottom of every page, while trying to force the book open wide enough to see the art lost in the binding.
The comic business prides itself on it creativity - its too bad it doesn't cross over into the production department.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
4 Characters in Search of a Guardian (It's a bad joke but somebody had to do it...), May 11 2010
By David Lawrence - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: The Newsboy Legion Vol. 1 Featuring Joe Simon & Jack Kirby (Hardcover)
Quite possibly the best of Simon & Kirby's pre-war DC creations The Newsboy Legion is fun from cover to cover.It blends so many of the elements of their best work. The gritty urban slums with which they were both intimately familiar; a gang of tough street kids who could have been their neighbors; the physically fit and morally upright hero who's greatest power wasn't flight, laser beams from his eyes or even his good right hook but his courage and decency.
The streets of Suicide Slum are as much of a star of the strip as the Guardian or the four newsboys. And if Gabby, Scrapper, Tommy and Big Words are something of one-note characters, it's still one more note than many of their contemporaries displayed.
The strip is less outrageously plotted than the Sandman, more believable in concept than the Boy Commandos, warmer and more accessible than Manhunter. And if the Guardian isn't as inherently unforgettable as Simon & Kirby's other shield slinger it's more a function of costume and name than any inherent weakness in the character. Personally, I find Jim Harper to be much more well rounded and fully-realized than Steve Rogers.
(Though perhaps Jack & Joe had a hard time keeping them straight; on page 5 of the origin story they slip and call our hero Steve.)
There is, unfortunately, a noticeable slip in quality as the volume goes on, likely a by-product of the rush to stockpile as much material as possible before Uncle Sam came a-calling for our creators, but the series never loses its charm.
The last couple stories in the volume are illustrated by a young Gil Kane. Though not the artist he would later become, and certainly not at Jack's level this early in the game, it's interesting enough and far from the worst work I've seen from the era.
The downside, as in DC's other recent golden-age reprints, is production. Though it's not nearly as bad as in the recent Sandman volume, color is at times washed out or muddy. More damaging is the reduction in printed page size to fit the format of the volume; the cramping does not serve the artwork well.
Too bad they did not see fit to give this and the Sandman the same loving care that the older DC Archive volumes received. Obviously the market for this older material is limited and I believe most of those who are interested enough to buy it would happily pay an extra few bucks to see it done right.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
The Newsboy Legion Vol. 1, Mar 30 2011
By Easykat - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: The Newsboy Legion Vol. 1 Featuring Joe Simon & Jack Kirby (Hardcover)
The Guardian was one of the few golden age D.C. heros I had never had a chance to read. I was never a big Simon and Kirby fan so I don't give points for that. One thing I did catch on to is that the kids are the stars and the adult super hero comes in and cleans up everything. The stories are a cut above the usual 1940s' stories and are fairly good. The art is the usual S.& K. product. Personally I like to see the masked hero all over the pages. Here, you might see him in a few captions and then he shows up in the last couple of pages. Just not enough for my taste but the higher quality stories help make up for it. As for the reproduction of the book....it's lousy. The colors are murky and all the other complaints from revues are true. Just look at the covers of the stories and you can see the gold color on the Guardians'change from gold to some other other color and then back from one cover to another. Although I bought this book knowing the 'down side', from other buyers it just works out to be a very average bunch of stories from the '40s. If you can get a deal on the price it might be worth it to you.
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