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Issue Details

Issue #79
Published October 1942
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 68
Editing Whitney Ellsworth

Cover Details - "Cobras of the Deep"

Characters Manhunter; Starman (inset)
Genre superhero
Pencils Jack Kirby [as Kirby] (signed)
Inks Joe Simon ? [as Simon] (signed)
Letters typeset
Reprinted in Sandman by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby, The (DC, 2009 series) #nn; in Golden Age Starman Archives, The (DC, 2000 series) #2 (2009)

11 page Starman story "The Tune of Terrific Toby"

Characters The Starman [Ted Knight]; Terrific Toby [Toby Weems]; the Soup-Gang [Nick Armstrong, Muley, Joey](villains)
Synopsis When Toby Weems stages a phony rescue of his office staff from a so-called bomb, he becomes a hero, which has some advantages with scaring underworld hoods. But his ego begins bothering him, so he seeks out Starman to help make him a real hero!
Genre superhero
Script Alfred Bester
Pencils Jack Burnley
Inks Jack Burnley
Colors Raymond Perry
Reprinted in Golden Age Starman Archives, The (DC, 2000 series) #2 (2009)

8 page Hourman and Thorndyke story "The Stroke of Doom"

Characters The Hourman [Rex Tyler]; Thorndyke Tompkins; Hans (bell maker, death); Gun Gunther (villain); Prof. Pitts (villain); Piper (villain)
Synopsis Hourman must battle the murderous plan of a criminal combine that uses the destructive tone of a specially constructed large bell.....sounds which cause death, destruction and madness for miles while the perpetrators are protected from the pulsations by vibro-mitters.
Genre superhero
Pencils Bernard Baily
Inks Bernard Baily
Letters Bernard Baily?
Notes Letterer credit changed from ? to Bernard Baily? by Craig Delich 2009-12-9. Writer credit revised from Ken Fitch? to ? by Craig Delich 2010-2-12. Thorndyke wears a partial Hourman costume in this story (red cape w/yellow trim and Hourglass).

8 page Genius Jones story "The Case of the Love-Sick Submarine"

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

11 page The Shining Knight story "The Mystery of the Shining Knight's Rival"

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

9 page Manhunter story "Battles the Cobras of the Deep"

Characters Manhunter [Paul Kirk]
Genre superhero
Script Jack Kirby
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Joe Simon ?
Letters Howard Ferguson
Reprinted in Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #440 (April-May 1974)

10 page The Sandman story "Footprints in the Sands of Time"

Characters The Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; Sandy [Sandy Hawkins]; The Curio Man (villain); Ruffy (villain)
Synopsis Sandman and Sandy track down the whereabouts of an hourglass, made in the days of the Greek Emperor, Michael Commenus [sic], onto which is engraved the lost formula for making water burn.
Genre superhero
Script Jack Kirby (signed)
Pencils Jack Kirby (signed)
Inks Joe Simon ? (signed)
Letters Howard Ferguson
Reprinted In Sandman by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby, The (DC, 2009 series) #nn