3-529: Star Spangled Comics is a comics anthology published by DC Comics which ran for 130 issues from October 1941 to July 1952. It was then retitled Star Spangled War Stories and lasted until issue #204 (February–March 1977). Star Spangled Comics debuted with an October 1941 cover date . The series began as a superhero title featuring the adventures of the Star-Spangled Kid and Stripesy who appeared until #86 (November 1948). This feature had
6-560: The Golden Age of Comics than Batman. Tomahawk , a western feature, was introduced in #69 (June 1947). Merry, Girl of 1,000 Gimmicks , first appeared in #81 (June 1948) in the "Star-Spangled Kid" feature. In the early 1950s, the title became dominated by horror features and by the end of its run the book switched to a war format; at which point it was rebooted to become Star Spangled War Stories . A Star Spangled Comics one-shot by writer Geoff Johns and artist Chris Weston
9-762: The distinction of a teen hero with an older sidekick (the reverse of the usual arrangement). With issue #7 (April 1942), the title starred the Joe Simon and Jack Kirby -created Newsboy Legion . A series of stories featuring Robin, the Boy Wonder began in issue #65 (February 1947) 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 . Comics historian Brian Cronin has noted that due to Robin's feature in Star Spangled Comics , he made more appearances during
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