Issue | #74 |
Published | May 1942 |
Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
Pages | 68 |
Editing | Whitney Ellsworth |
Characters | The Sandman [Wesly Dodds]; Sandy [Sandy Hawkins]; Starman [Ted Knight] (inset) |
Genre | superhero |
Pencils | Jack Kirby |
Inks | Joe Simon ? |
Reprinted | in Forever People, The (DC, 1971 series) #9; in Golden Age Starman Archives (DC, 2000 series) #1 |
Characters | The Starman [Ted Knight]; Doris Lee; Woodley Allen; Ivan Caroff (introduction); The Panther Man [Klaw] (villain, introduction) |
Synopsis | A evil man at the Carl Carey Research Clinic invents an electronic ray that turns the head of a man into a panther...and Starman's into a lion! |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Gardner F. Fox |
Pencils | Jack Burnley (signed) |
Inks | Jack Burnley (signed); Ray Burnley [backgrounds] |
Colors | Raymond Perry |
Letters | Betty Bentley |
Notes | Story takes place in Gotham City. Letterer and background credits added by Craig Delich 2008-2-24. |
Reprinted | in Golden Age Starman Archives (DC, 2000 series) #1 |
Characters | The Hourman [Rex Tyler]; Thorndyke; Professor Smythe; Jenkins; Gimpty Gowan (villain); Bugs Manders (villain); Johnny Ray (villain, a fence) |
Synopsis | The Man of the Hour must outwit a pair of clever crooks who manage to steal rarities (like statues or rare books), and replace them with look alikes, which explode one hour later, thus covering up their crime and netting them easy money. |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Joseph Greene |
Pencils | Bernard Baily (signed) |
Inks | Bernard Baily (signed) |
Letters | Bernard Baily |
Notes | Letterer credit added by Craig Delich 2008-2-24. Writer credit verified by Martin O'Hearn. Oddity: on page 6, panel 4, Hourman called Thorndyke "Jimmy". In this story, Thorndyke wears a partial Hourman costume [red cape w/yellow trim, hourglass around neck]. |
Characters | Steve Conrad; Tarsi |
Genre | adventure |
Script | Jack Lehti |
Pencils | Jack Lehti |
Inks | Jack Lehti |
Characters | The Shining Knight [Sir Justin] |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Henry Lynne Perkins |
Pencils | Louis Cazeneuve |
Inks | Louis Cazeneuve |
Notes | Writer verified by Martin O'Hearn. |
Characters | Manhunter [Paul Kirk] |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Jack Kirby |
Pencils | Jack Kirby |
Inks | Joe Simon? |
Letters | Howard Ferguson |
Reprinted | In New Gods, The (DC, 1971 series) #5 (October-November 1971) |
Characters | The Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; Sandy [Sandy Hawkins]; Ed Porter; The Human Calculator [Professor Hiram Gaunt](villain, introduction) |
Synopsis | Sandman and Sandy face the threat of a scientist who has invented a machine whose revitalizing vibrations allow a man to develop his unused brain cells, tripling his thinking power! |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Jack Kirby |
Pencils | Jack Kirby |
Inks | Joe Simon ? |
Letters | Howard Ferguson |
Reprinted | in Forever People, The (DC, 1971 series) #9 (June-July 1972); in Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #498; in The Sandman by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby (DC, 2009) #nn. |