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Issue Details

Issue #70
Published January 1942
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 68
Editing Whitney Ellsworth

Cover Details

Characters Starman
Genre superhero
Pencils Jack Burnley
Inks Jack Burnley
Letters typeset
Reprinted in Golden Age Starman Archives (DC, 2000 series) #1

13 page Starman story "Adventure of the Ring of Hijackers"

Characters The Starman [Ted Knight]; Doris Lee; Woodley Allen; Baron X (villain, introduction); Slich (villain, introduction)
Synopsis The Astral Avenger takes on Baron X, who attempts to hijacks trains, trucks and ships loaded with munitions heading for Great Britain.
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 2008-2-23.
Reprinted in Golden Age Starman Archives (DC, 2000 series) #1

13 page The Shining Knight story "The Pirate Submarines"

Characters The Shining Knight [Sir Justin]
Genre superhero
Pencils Creig Flessel
Inks Creig Flessel

8 page The Hourman story "The Magic Carpet"

Characters The Hourman [Rex Tyler]; Mr. Bannerman; Bert Izzel; Lucky Atlas; Walsh (Atlas' chauffeur); Globe-O (villain); Dodo (villain)
Synopsis Several dwarfs, fired because they had used a man's factories for unlawful purposes, seek to ruin the man by kidnapping one of his scientist employees and using his invention to power a flying carpet.
Genre superhero
Pencils Bernard Baily (signed)
Inks Bernard Baily (signed)
Letters Bernard Baily
Notes Letterer credit added by Craig Delich 2008-2-23.

6 page Steve Conrad, Adventurer story "Treasure of the Galleon"

Characters Steve Conrad
Genre adventure
Script Jack Lehti
Pencils Jack Lehti
Inks Jack Lehti

4 page Federal Men story "Hot Metal Death"

Characters Steve Carson
Genre detective
Pencils Chad Grothkopf
Inks Chad Grothkopf

6 page Paul Kirk, Manhunter story "The Body on the Doorstep"

Characters Paul Kirk
Genre superhero
Script Ed Moore
Pencils Ed Moore
Inks Ed Moore
Letters Ed Moore
Notes Letterer credit added by Craig Delich 2008-2-23.

8 page The Sandman story "The Adventure of the Murderous Bookshop"

Characters The Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; Sandy (Sandy McGann); Mr. Conners (death); The Bookworm (villain, death); Butch (villain, death)
Synopsis Sandman and Sandy come up against a villain who looks like a scholar but has the soul of a devil, and who is intent on getting his hands on a lost novel/manuscript penned by the late Edgar Allan Poe
Genre superhero
Script Mort Weisinger
Pencils Paul Norris
Inks Chad Grothkopf
Letters Chad Grothkopf
Notes Pencil credit verified by Paul Norris per Craig Delich (November, 2004), and inker credit verified by Grothkopf. Norris was told to draw the story "in a Bob Kane style". Writer identification by Jerry Bails.