Newsboy Legion and The Guardian Appreciation (2019)

[MajorHoy]

NOTE: This is a continuation of the previous "Newsboy Legion and The Guardian Appreciation Thread" thread, which can be read here:

https://community.cbr.com/showthread...ciation-Thread

From the original thread (started in late November of 2018),

The Newsboy Legion (with The Guardian) was a Golden Age feature created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby that first appeared in Star Spangled Comics #7 (April 1942).


It ran until issue #67 of that title (cover-dated January 1947), though The Guardian (Jim Harper) seems to have disappeared from the covers a couple of issues before then.



In the 1970s, when Jack Kirby took over the book Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen for a while, he brought back the members of the Newsboy Legion as adults, along with new junior versions and an additional member.

[MajorHoy]

Also from the previous version of this thread:

from Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe Vol. IX (November 1985)

And, for the 1970s+ version,

from Who's Who Update '88 Vol. 2 (September 1988)

[MajorHoy]

The Guardian and the Newsboy Legion were featured in two issues of the 1986-1990 run of Secret Origins.


Secret Origins #19 (October 1987) retold the original story from Star-Spangled Comics #7 as well as the additions to The Guardian's origin that Roy Thomas wrote for All-Star Squadron Annual #1 in 1982.


Thirty issues later, in Secret Origins #49 (June 1990), they added in the story of the later-generation cloned Newsboy Legion that Jack Kirby created in the 1970s.

[MajorHoy]

from All-Star Squadron Annual #1 (1982)

[MajorHoy]

The Guardian's entry from Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe Vol. IX (November 1985)

[MajorHoy]

From their first appearance in Star Spangled Comics #7 (April 1942):

which nearly thirty years later was reprinted in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #141 (September 1971)