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Issue Details

Issue #76
Published July 1942
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 68
Editing Whitney Ellsworth

Cover Details

Characters The Sandman; Sandy; Starman (inset)
Genre superhero
Pencils Jack Kirby (signed)
Inks Joe Simon? (signed)
Reprinted in Golden Age Starman Archives (DC, 2000 series) #1; in The Sandman by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby (DC, 2009 series) #nn

11 page Starman story "Starman Eclipses the Sun"

Characters The Starman [Ted Knight]; Doris Lee; Woodley Allen; The Moroni Gang = The Sun, The Moon, Comet, Saturn, and Mercury (villains, 1st appearances)
Synopsis Starman faces a dire threat from the Moroni Gang, now out-fitted with fantastic weapons and a rocketship, as they take on the personnas of the Sun and some of the orbiting satellites which line up with the names and weapons they have chosen.
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 and backgrounds credits added by Craig Delich 2008-2-24.
Reprinted in Golden Age Starman Archives (DC, 2000 series) #1

8 page The Hourman story "The Million Dollar Orphan"

Characters The Hour-Man [Rex Tyler]; Danny McGrew; Thorndyke Tompkins; Joe (villain)
Synopsis Rex Tyler visits an orphanage and tries to impress the kids with several scientific experiments, and all are impressed.....that is, except one, who is suddenly kidnapped by thugs. But when the Hourman tries to rescue the young boy, he refuses to be saved and seems to want to have a ransom paid for his safe return!
Genre superhero
Pencils Bernard Baily (signed)
Inks Bernard Baily (signed)
Letters Bernard Baily
Notes Letterer credit added by Craig Delich 2008-2-24. Writer credit revised from Ken Fitch? to ? by Craig Delich 2010-2-6.

6 page Steve Conrad, Adventurer story "The Origin of 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 "Three Badmen on a Horse"

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

9 page Manhunter story "The Legend of the Silent Bear"

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) #7 (February-March 1972)

10 page The Sandman story "Mr. Noah Raids the Town"

Characters The Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; Sandy [Sandy Hawkins]; Mr. Noah [Noah Barton](villain)
Synopsis Noah Barton's disturbing dream leads him to discover a way to make himself wealthy, yet avert suspicion from himself and his gang by posing as a modern-day Noah, predicting doom and gloom for mankind.
Genre superhero
Script Jack Kirby
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Joe Simon?
Letters Howard Ferguson
Reprinted in Sandman by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby, The (DC, 2009 series) #nn