| Issue | #79 |
| Published | October 1942 |
| Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
| Pages | 68 |
| Editing | Whitney Ellsworth |
| Characters | Manhunter; Starman (inset) |
| Genre | superhero |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby [as Kirby] (signed) |
| Inks | Joe Simon ? [as Simon] (signed) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Reprinted | in Sandman by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby, The (DC, 2009 series) #nn; in Golden Age Starman Archives, The (DC, 2000 series) #2 (2009) |
| Characters | The Starman [Ted Knight]; Terrific Toby [Toby Weems]; the Soup-Gang [Nick Armstrong, Muley, Joey](villains) |
| Synopsis | When Toby Weems stages a phony rescue of his office staff from a so-called bomb, he becomes a hero, which has some advantages with scaring underworld hoods. But his ego begins bothering him, so he seeks out Starman to help make him a real hero! |
| Genre | superhero |
| Script | Alfred Bester |
| Pencils | Jack Burnley |
| Inks | Jack Burnley |
| Colors | Raymond Perry |
| Reprinted | in Golden Age Starman Archives, The (DC, 2000 series) #2 (2009) |
| Characters | The Hourman [Rex Tyler]; Thorndyke Tompkins; Hans (bell maker, death); Gun Gunther (villain); Prof. Pitts (villain); Piper (villain) |
| Synopsis | Hourman must battle the murderous plan of a criminal combine that uses the destructive tone of a specially constructed large bell.....sounds which cause death, destruction and madness for miles while the perpetrators are protected from the pulsations by vibro-mitters. |
| Genre | superhero |
| Pencils | Bernard Baily |
| Inks | Bernard Baily |
| Letters | Bernard Baily? |
| Notes | Letterer credit changed from ? to Bernard Baily? by Craig Delich 2009-12-9. Writer credit revised from Ken Fitch? to ? by Craig Delich 2010-2-12. Thorndyke wears a partial Hourman costume in this story (red cape w/yellow trim and Hourglass). |
| Characters | Genius Jones |
| Genre | teen |
| Script | Alfred Bester |
| Pencils | Stan Kaye |
| Inks | Stan Kaye |
| Characters | The Shining Knight [Sir Justin] |
| Genre | superhero |
| Pencils | Louis Cazeneuve |
| Inks | Louis Cazeneuve |
| Characters | Manhunter [Paul Kirk] |
| Genre | superhero |
| Script | Jack Kirby |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Joe Simon ? |
| Letters | Howard Ferguson |
| Reprinted | in Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #440 (April-May 1974) |
| Characters | The Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; Sandy [Sandy Hawkins]; The Curio Man (villain); Ruffy (villain) |
| Synopsis | Sandman and Sandy track down the whereabouts of an hourglass, made in the days of the Greek Emperor, Michael Commenus [sic], onto which is engraved the lost formula for making water burn. |
| Genre | superhero |
| Script | Jack Kirby (signed) |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby (signed) |
| Inks | Joe Simon ? (signed) |
| Letters | Howard Ferguson |
| Reprinted | In Sandman by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby, The (DC, 2009 series) #nn |