Data courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under Creative Commons license.

Issue Details

Issue #82
Published January 1943
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 68
Editing Whitney Ellsworth

Cover Details

Characters The Sandman; Sandy; Genius Jones (inset); Starman (inset)
Genre superhero
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Joe Simon ?
Letters typeset
Notes Artwork on the Genius Jones inset by Stan Kaye.
Reprinted In Sandman by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby, The (DC, 2009 series) #nn; in Golden Age Starman Archives, The (DC, 2000 series)

10 page The Sandman story "Santa Fronts for the Mob"

Characters The Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; Sandy [Sandy Hawkins]; F. P. Miller; Peter Aloysius Vandergilt III; Mountain Man Bearde; Slicky (villain); Max (villain); Smoothe (villain)
Synopsis A gang of crooks talk a dim-witted professional wrestler into playing Santa Claus at a local department store as a front for the commission of crimes.
Genre superhero
Script Jack Kirby (signed)
Pencils Jack Kirby (signed)
Inks Joe Simon ? (signed)
Letters Howard Ferguson
Reprinted in Limited Collectors' Edition (DC, 1972 series) #C-43; in The Sandman by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby (DC, 2009 series) #nn

9 page Starman story "Hitch a Wagon to The Stars?"

Characters Starman [Ted Knight]; Jim Hart; Isobelle Sandow; Norwood (villain); the Nazis (villains)
Synopsis Young Jim Hart, a failure in life because he believes in astrology, invents a submarine detector that Starman uses to capture enemy forces and the man who once convinced Hart to follow astrological signs.
Genre superhero
Pencils Mort Meskin [as Morton Jr.] (signed)
Inks George Roussos [as Roussos] (signed)
Reprinted in Golden Age Starman Archives, The (DC, 2000 series) #2 (2009)

11 page The Shining Knight story "The Sorcerer's Apprentice"

Characters The Shining Knight [Sir Justin]
Genre superhero
Pencils Louis Cazeneuve
Inks Louis Cazeneuve

8 page Genius Jones story "Did I Ever See a Dream Walking?"

Characters Genius Jones
Genre teen
Script Alfred Bester
Pencils Stan Kaye
Inks Stan Kaye

9 page Manhunter story "The Animal Murders"

Characters Manhunter [Paul Kirk]
Genre superhero
Script Jack Kirby
Pencils Pierce Rice

8 page Hourman and Thorndyke story "The High-Powered Hoods"

Characters The Hourman [Rex Tyler]; Thorndyke Tompkins; Doc (villain, death); Slim (villain); Stumpy (villain)
Synopsis A group of thugs break into the apartment of Rex Tyler and steal the Miraclo Ray machine. Coupled with a series of acquisitive instinct injections they've been receiving, it seems that the Hourman has no chance of defeating them.
Genre superhero
Pencils Bernard Baily
Inks Bernard Baily
Letters Bernard Baily
Notes Writer credit revised from Ken Fitch? to ? and letterer credit added by Craig Delich 2010-2-22. In the story, Thorndyke wears a partial Hourman costume (red cape with yellow trim and an hourglass about his neck). The last panel, illustrated and lettered by Bernard Baily, is a plug for the Americommando strip in Action Comics, and pictures the Americommando and his villain, the terrible Little One.