Newsboy Legion

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Newsboy Legion is a Golden Age DC Comics kid-gang created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, known for its streetwise orphans who fight crime alongside the superhero Guardian.

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instanceOf DC Comics team
Golden Age comics group
fictional superhero team
allyOf Guardian NERFINISHED
appearsIn Star-Spangled Comics NERFINISHED
appearsInUniverse DC Universe NERFINISHED
associatedWith Jim Harper NERFINISHED
Project Cadmus NERFINISHED
baseOfOperations Metropolis NERFINISHED
Suicide Slum NERFINISHED
comicBookDebut Star-Spangled Comics #7 NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
creator Jack Kirby NERFINISHED
Joe Simon NERFINISHED
debutYear 1942
era Golden Age of Comic Books NERFINISHED
fictionalStatus fictional characters
genre adventure
superhero
hasReboot Post-Crisis reinterpretation
Silver Age revival
inspiredBy urban street gangs of the 1940s
languageOfWork English
medium comic books
member Big Words NERFINISHED
Gabby NERFINISHED
Scrapper NERFINISHED
Tommy Tompkins NERFINISHED
notableCharacteristic streetwise orphans
notableFor early kid-gang concept in superhero comics
originalPublisherImprint DC Comics NERFINISHED
primaryActivity fighting crime
selling newspapers
publisher DC Comics
relatedTeam Newsboy Legion (second generation) NERFINISHED
setting American inner-city neighborhood
teamRole crime-fighting street gang
teamType kid gang

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The Boy Commandos associatedWith Newsboy Legion