Issue Details

Issue	#85
Published	April 1943
Cover Price	0.10 USD
Pages	68
Editing	Whitney Ellsworth

Cover Details - "The Amazing Dreams of Gentleman Jack"

Characters	The Sandman; Sandy; Gentleman Jack Jarvis; Starman (inset)
Genre	superhero
Pencils	Jack Kirby
Inks	Joe Simon ?
Letters	typeset
Reprinted	in Forever People, The (DC, 1971 series) #4 (August-September, 1971); in Sandman by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby, The (DC, 2009 series) #nn; in Golden Age Starman Archives, The (DC, 2000 series) #2 (2009)

10 page The Sandman story "The Unholy Dreams of Gentleman Jack"

Characters	Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; Sandy [Sandy Hawkins]; "Gentleman Jack" Jarvis (villain); Gus (villain)
Synopsis	Hounded by dreams of the Sandman, when Gentleman Jack Jarvis is released from prison he swears that he will one day live in a suite of cells, come and go as he pleases with guards waiting on him hand and foot......but the Sandman will suffer in a solitary cell and made to die slowly!
Genre	superhero
Script	Jack Kirby (signed)
Pencils	Jack Kirby (signed)
Inks	Joe Simon ? (signed)
Letters	Howard Ferguson
Reprinted	in Forever People, The (DC, 1971 series) #4 (August-September 1971); in Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #492; in Sandman by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby, The (DC, 2009 series) #nn

9 page Starman story "The Constellations of Crime!"

Characters	Starman [Ted Knight]; Woodley Allen; Doris Lee; Astra (villain)
Synopsis	Starman faces the threat of a cunning astrologist whose gang commits their crimes under various signs of the zodiac.
Genre	superhero
Script	Gardner F. Fox
Pencils	Emil Gershwin
Inks	Emil Gershwin
Reprinted	in Golden Age Starman Archives, The (DC, 2000 series) #2 (2009)

9 page The Shining Knight story "The Scrap For Scrap"

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

8 page Genius Jones story "Way Down Yonder in the Corn Field"

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

9 page Manhunter story "The Mystery of the Monster Bird"

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

8 page Mike Gibbs, Guerilla story "The School For Heroes"

Script	Joe Samachson
Pencils	Irving Tirman
Inks	Irving Tirman
Notes	Writer and art credits, confirmed by Jerry Bails, added by Craig Delich 2009-12-13. Lettering credit revised to ? from Howard Ferguson by Craig Delich 2009-12-13.