Issue Details

Issue	#52
Published	July 1940
Cover Price	0.10
Pages	68
Editing	Vincent Sullivan?

Cover Details

Characters	The Hourman
Genre	superhero
Pencils	Bernard Baily (signed)
Inks	Bernard Baily (signed)
Letters	typeset

10 page The Sandman story "Wanted! Dead Or Alive"

Characters	The Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; Dian Belmont; Claudia Norgan (villain, intro); Amber Apple Gang (villains, intro for all)
Synopsis	While Wes is enjoying Dian's musical abilities at the piano, they hear, then encounter, a thief stealing some gloves from Dian's room belonging to Claudia Norgan and leaving an amber apple in its place.
Genre	superhero
Script	Gardner F. Fox
Pencils	Creig Flessel [as Flessel] (signed)
Inks	Creig Flessel [as Flessel] (signed)
Notes	Flessel signed the strip in a newspaper found in the last panel on Page 4. Credits updated 11/04 by Bob Hughes, identified by Craig Delich.
Reprinted	in Golden Age Sandman Archives (DC, 2004 series) #1

1 page Farmer Doode filler

Characters	I: Farmer Doode
Genre	humor
Script	Bernard Baily
Pencils	Bernard Baily
Inks	Bernard Baily
Letters	Bernard Baily?
Notes	Only appearance. Lettering credit added by Craig Delich 2-18-08.

4 page Rusty and His Pals story "Mansion of Murder: Part 7"

Characters	Rusty; V: Zoroff, Karl (both D), a trial chief (I).
Genre	adventure
Script	Bill Finger?
Notes	Last appearance.

6 page Barry O'Neill story "Fang Gow and the Spoiler Ray"

Characters	Barry O'Neill; V: Fang Gow.
Genre	adventure
Script	Ed Winiarski
Pencils	Ed Winiarski
Inks	Ed Winiarski

2 page text story "The Red Metal"

Genre	adventure
Script	Gardner F. Fox (signed)
Letters	typeset

6 page Steve Conrad Adventurer story "The Kidnapping of Col. Bentley's Daughter"

Characters	Steve Conrad; I: Col. Bentley and his daughter.
Genre	adventure
Script	Jack Lehti
Pencils	Jack Lehti
Inks	Jack Lehti

4 page Federal Men story "The Canadian Dope Smuggling Plot"

Characters	Steve Conrad; V: Jim Larkins and his gang (I for all).
Genre	detective
Script	Jerry Siegel
Pencils	Chad Grothkopf
Inks	Chad Grothkopf

6 page Cotton Carver story "The Flying Men"

Characters	Cotton Carver; GS: Lupa, Red Mike, Deela; I: Qwuar; V: The Sleebos (I; winged men).
Genre	adventure
Script	Gardner F. Fox
Pencils	Jack Lehti
Inks	Jack Lehti

6 page Socko Strong story "The Great I: Part 1"

Characters	Socko Strong; V: The Great I (I).
Genre	adventure; sports
Script	Albert Sulman
Pencils	Joseph Sulman
Inks	Joseph Sulman

6 page Anchors Aweigh! story "Gun-Runners of the WASP"

Characters	V: Captain Desmond (I)
Genre	adventure
Script	Bart Tumey
Pencils	Bart Tumey
Inks	Bart Tumey
Notes	Last appearance.

6 page The Hourman story "The Phony Hourman"

Characters	The Hourman [Rex Tyler]; Bob Wallave (intro); Dr. Snegg (villain, intro, death)
Synopsis	Rex gets a new helper in the munitions lab, but is shocked to later discover that he has been hynotized by a Doctor Snegg into assuming the role of Hour-Man to bring the real Man of the Hour into the open so he could dispose of him!
Genre	superhero
Script	Ken Fitch
Pencils	Bernard Baily (signed)
Inks	Bernard Baily (signed)
Letters	Bernard Baily
Notes	Letterer credit added by Craig Delich 2008-2-18. Writer revision from Gardner F. Fox to Fitch by Craig Delich & verified by Martin O'Hearn 2009-4-18. Story title taken from the Archive.
Reprinted	in JSA All Stars Archives, The (DC, 2007 series) #1