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Issue Details

Issue #74
Published May 1942
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 68
Editing Whitney Ellsworth

Cover Details

Characters The Sandman [Wesly Dodds]; Sandy [Sandy Hawkins]; Starman [Ted Knight] (inset)
Genre superhero
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Joe Simon ?
Reprinted in Forever People, The (DC, 1971 series) #9; in Golden Age Starman Archives (DC, 2000 series) #1

11 page Starman story "The Case of the Monstrous Animal-Men"

Characters The Starman [Ted Knight]; Doris Lee; Woodley Allen; Ivan Caroff (introduction); The Panther Man [Klaw] (villain, introduction)
Synopsis A evil man at the Carl Carey Research Clinic invents an electronic ray that turns the head of a man into a panther...and Starman's into a lion!
Genre superhero
Script Gardner F. Fox
Pencils Jack Burnley (signed)
Inks Jack Burnley (signed); Ray Burnley [backgrounds]
Colors Raymond Perry
Letters Betty Bentley
Notes Story takes place in Gotham City. Letterer and background credits added by Craig Delich 2008-2-24.
Reprinted in Golden Age Starman Archives (DC, 2000 series) #1

8 page The Hourman story "Case of the Highbrow Hoods"

Characters The Hourman [Rex Tyler]; Thorndyke; Professor Smythe; Jenkins; Gimpty Gowan (villain); Bugs Manders (villain); Johnny Ray (villain, a fence)
Synopsis The Man of the Hour must outwit a pair of clever crooks who manage to steal rarities (like statues or rare books), and replace them with look alikes, which explode one hour later, thus covering up their crime and netting them easy money.
Genre superhero
Script Joseph Greene
Pencils Bernard Baily (signed)
Inks Bernard Baily (signed)
Letters Bernard Baily
Notes Letterer credit added by Craig Delich 2008-2-24. Writer credit verified by Martin O'Hearn. Oddity: on page 6, panel 4, Hourman called Thorndyke "Jimmy". In this story, Thorndyke wears a partial Hourman costume [red cape w/yellow trim, hourglass around neck].

6 page Steve Conrad, Adventurer story "Tarsi, the Tiger Boy"

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

11 page The Shining Knight story "The Castle in the Air"

Characters The Shining Knight [Sir Justin]
Genre superhero
Script Henry Lynne Perkins
Pencils Louis Cazeneuve
Inks Louis Cazeneuve
Notes Writer verified by Martin O'Hearn.

9 page Manhunter story "Scavenger Hunt"

Characters Manhunter [Paul Kirk]
Genre superhero
Script Jack Kirby
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Joe Simon?
Letters Howard Ferguson
Reprinted In New Gods, The (DC, 1971 series) #5 (October-November 1971)

10 page The Sandman story "The Man Who Knew All the Answers"

Characters The Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; Sandy [Sandy Hawkins]; Ed Porter; The Human Calculator [Professor Hiram Gaunt](villain, introduction)
Synopsis Sandman and Sandy face the threat of a scientist who has invented a machine whose revitalizing vibrations allow a man to develop his unused brain cells, tripling his thinking power!
Genre superhero
Script Jack Kirby
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Joe Simon ?
Letters Howard Ferguson
Reprinted in Forever People, The (DC, 1971 series) #9 (June-July 1972); in Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #498; in The Sandman by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby (DC, 2009) #nn.