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Issue Details

Issue #69
Published December 1941
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 68
Editing Whitney Ellsworth

Cover Details

Characters Starman
Genre superhero
Pencils Jack Burnley
Inks Jack Burnley
Letters typeset
Reprinted in Golden Age Starman Archives (DC, 2000 series) #1

13 page Starman story "Adventure of the Singapore Stranglers"

Characters The Starman [Ted Knight]; Doris Lee; Woodley Allen; Jeeves (Knight's driver); Captain Fujiyama and the Singapore Stranglers (villains, introduction)
Synopsis Starman takes on a gang of saboteurs who are using a giant acetylene torch to badly damage ships while in the Gotham docks.
Genre superhero
Script Gardner F. Fox
Pencils Jack Burnley (signed)
Inks Jack Burnley (signed); Ray Burnley [backgrounds]
Colors Raymond Perry
Letters Betty Bentley
Notes Letterer & background credits added by Craig Delich 2008-2-28.
Reprinted in Golden Age Starman Archives (DC, 2000 series) #1

13 page The Shining Knight story "The Red Dragon"

Characters The Shining Knight [Sir Justin]; The Red Dragon (villain, introduction)
Genre superhero
Pencils Creig Flessel
Inks Creig Flessel

8 page The Hourman story "Dr. Wizen's Gorohs"

Characters The Hourman [Rex Tyler]; Mr. Bannerman; Meadows (Tyler's landlord); Dr. Wizen (villain, introduction); The Gorohs (villains, half-man, half-ape creatures)
Synopsis A strange visitor from another planet is bent on conquering the universe and wishes to make sure that the Man of the Hour cannot interfere, so kidnaps Hourman and his supply of Miraclo.
Genre superhero
Pencils Bernard Baily (signed)
Inks Bernard Baily (signed)
Letters Bernard Baily
Notes Letterer credit added by Craig Delich 2008-2-23. Oddity: the last panel of the story, a blurb for the Spectre [as written by Jerry Siegel and drawn by Bernard Baily], strangely states that Baily was the creator of the Hourman!

6 page Steve Conrad, Adventurer story "The Prehistoric Island"

Characters Steve Conrad
Genre adventure
Script Jack Lehti
Pencils Jack Lehti
Inks Jack Lehti

4 page Federal Men story "Bogus Bills"

Characters Steve Carson
Genre detective
Pencils Chad Grothkopf
Inks Chad Grothkopf

6 page Paul Kirk, Manhunter story "The Ambergris Killers"

Characters Paul Kirk
Genre superhero
Script Ed Moore
Pencils Ed Moore
Inks Ed Moore
Letters Ed Moore
Notes Letterer credit added by Craig Delich 2008-2-23.

8 page The Sandman story "The Case of the Giant Bees"

Characters The Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; Sandy the Golden Boy [Sandy McGann](introduction); Bess Buttsford; Mr. Buttsford; The Queen Bee (villain, an insect)
Synopsis A scientist invents an unusual super thyroid extract which allows bees to gain gigantic size, and it's up to the Sandman, and his new partner, to save the man from the Queen Bee, who wishes to know the secret behind the extract.
Genre superhero
Script Mort Weisinger
Pencils Paul Norris
Inks Chad Grothkopf
Letters Chad Grothkopf
Notes New costume for Sandman. Pencil credit verified by Paul Norris per Craig Delich (November, 2004) and ink credit confirmed by Grothkopf. Norris was told to draw the story "in a Bob Kane style". Writer identification by Jerry Bails.