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Issue Details

Issue #52
Published July 1940
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 68
Editing Vincent Sullivan?

Cover Details

Characters The Hourman
Genre superhero
Pencils Bernard Baily (signed)
Inks Bernard Baily (signed)
Letters typeset

10 page The Sandman story "Wanted! Dead Or Alive"

Characters The Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; Dian Belmont; Claudia Norgan (villain, intro); Amber Apple Gang (villains, intro for all)
Synopsis While Wes is enjoying Dian's musical abilities at the piano, they hear, then encounter, a thief stealing some gloves from Dian's room belonging to Claudia Norgan and leaving an amber apple in its place.
Genre superhero
Script Gardner F. Fox
Pencils Creig Flessel [as Flessel] (signed)
Inks Creig Flessel [as Flessel] (signed)
Notes Flessel signed the strip in a newspaper found in the last panel on Page 4. Credits updated 11/04 by Bob Hughes, identified by Craig Delich.
Reprinted in Golden Age Sandman Archives (DC, 2004 series) #1

1 page Farmer Doode filler

Characters I: Farmer Doode
Genre humor
Script Bernard Baily
Pencils Bernard Baily
Inks Bernard Baily
Letters Bernard Baily?
Notes Only appearance. Lettering credit added by Craig Delich 2-18-08.

4 page Rusty and His Pals story "Mansion of Murder: Part 7"

Characters Rusty; V: Zoroff, Karl (both D), a trial chief (I).
Genre adventure
Script Bill Finger?
Notes Last appearance.

6 page Barry O'Neill story "Fang Gow and the Spoiler Ray"

Characters Barry O'Neill; V: Fang Gow.
Genre adventure
Script Ed Winiarski
Pencils Ed Winiarski
Inks Ed Winiarski

2 page text story "The Red Metal"

Genre adventure
Script Gardner F. Fox (signed)
Letters typeset

6 page Steve Conrad Adventurer story "The Kidnapping of Col. Bentley's Daughter"

Characters Steve Conrad; I: Col. Bentley and his daughter.
Genre adventure
Script Jack Lehti
Pencils Jack Lehti
Inks Jack Lehti

4 page Federal Men story "The Canadian Dope Smuggling Plot"

Characters Steve Conrad; V: Jim Larkins and his gang (I for all).
Genre detective
Script Jerry Siegel
Pencils Chad Grothkopf
Inks Chad Grothkopf

6 page Cotton Carver story "The Flying Men"

Characters Cotton Carver; GS: Lupa, Red Mike, Deela; I: Qwuar; V: The Sleebos (I; winged men).
Genre adventure
Script Gardner F. Fox
Pencils Jack Lehti
Inks Jack Lehti

6 page Socko Strong story "The Great I: Part 1"

Characters Socko Strong; V: The Great I (I).
Genre adventure; sports
Script Albert Sulman
Pencils Joseph Sulman
Inks Joseph Sulman

6 page Anchors Aweigh! story "Gun-Runners of the WASP"

Characters V: Captain Desmond (I)
Genre adventure
Script Bart Tumey
Pencils Bart Tumey
Inks Bart Tumey
Notes Last appearance.

6 page The Hourman story "The Phony Hourman"

Characters The Hourman [Rex Tyler]; Bob Wallave (intro); Dr. Snegg (villain, intro, death)
Synopsis Rex gets a new helper in the munitions lab, but is shocked to later discover that he has been hynotized by a Doctor Snegg into assuming the role of Hour-Man to bring the real Man of the Hour into the open so he could dispose of him!
Genre superhero
Script Ken Fitch
Pencils Bernard Baily (signed)
Inks Bernard Baily (signed)
Letters Bernard Baily
Notes Letterer credit added by Craig Delich 2008-2-18. Writer revision from Gardner F. Fox to Fitch by Craig Delich & verified by Martin O'Hearn 2009-4-18. Story title taken from the Archive.
Reprinted in JSA All Stars Archives, The (DC, 2007 series) #1