Issue | #75 |
Published | June 1942 |
Cover Price | 0.10 |
Pages | 68 |
Editing | Whitney Ellsworth |
Characters | The Sandman; Sandy; Thor (villain); Starman (inset) |
Genre | superhero |
Pencils | Jack Kirby (signed) |
Inks | Joe Simon? (signed) |
Reprinted | in Forever People, The (DC, 1971 series) #6; in Golden Age Starman Archives (DC, 2000 series) #1; in Sandman by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby, The (DC, 2009) #nn. |
Characters | The Starman [Ted Knight]; Liars' Club [Cliff Henry, Vardon, Carver, Everts]; The Veil [Vardon] (villain, introduction) |
Synopsis | Ted is inducted into the Liar's Club and immediately tells them that he is the Starman. And if that isn't enough, along comes a villain who uses the fantastic fibs of the members to weave a web of evil that snares the men's lives and fortunes. |
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 background credits added by Craig Delich 2008-2-24. |
Reprinted | in Golden Age Starman Archives (DC, 2000 series) #1 |
Characters | Manhunter [Paul Kirk]; Mr. Meek (villain). |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Jack Kirby |
Pencils | Jack Kirby |
Inks | Joe Simon? |
Letters | Howard ferguson |
Reprinted | In The New Gods (DC, 1971 series) #6 (December 1971-January 1972). |
Characters | Steve Conrad |
Genre | adventure |
Script | Jack Lehti |
Pencils | Jack Lehti |
Inks | Jack Lehti |
Characters | The Shining Knight [Sir Justin]; the Wrecker (villain) |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Henry Lynne Perkins |
Pencils | Louis Cazeneuve |
Inks | Louis Cazeneuve |
Notes | Writer verified by Martin O'Hearn. |
Characters | The Hour-Man [Rex Tyler]; Thorndyke Tompkins; Mrs. Tompkins (Thorndyke's mother); Ed Tompkins (Thorndyke's father); Brick Barton (villain); Dopey Dann (villain); un-named owner of the Gotham Milk Farm (villain, Ed Thompkin's boss) |
Synopsis | Thorndyke's father is shot by a criminal gang after his milk wagon horse, Daisy, and the milk bottles to be delivered, are taken on its normal run in a bad storm by a phony driver. This driver accidently loses control of the wagon and it goes off on its merry way......it's crago containing over $1 in cash! |
Genre | superhero |
Pencils | Bernard Baily (signed) |
Inks | Bernard Baily (signed) |
Letters | Bernard Baily |
Notes | Letterer credit added by Craig Delich 2008-2-24. Writer credit revised from Ken Fitch? to ? by Craig Delich 2010-2-3 as no writer credit has been verified to date. Thorndyke wears a version of the Hourman costume in this story (red cape wth yellow trim and an hourglass around neck). |
Characters | The Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; Sandy [Sandy Hawkins]; Police Chief Haines; Thor [Fairy Tales Fenton](villain) |
Synopsis | A former Professor of Metallurgy, who has invented clothing of lucite that is bullet-proof, disguises himself and his men as ancient Vikings to commit crimes. They then challenge the Police and Sandman to discover their whereabouts after divesting themselves of their distinctive garb. |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Jack Kirby |
Pencils | Jack Kirby |
Inks | Joe Simon? |
Letters | Howard Ferguson |
Reprinted | in Forever People, The (DC, 1971 series) #6 (December 1971-January 1972); in Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #499; in Best of Simon and Kirby, The (Titan Books, 2009 series) #[nn]; in The Sandman by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby (DC, 2009 series) #nn |