| Issue | #82 |
| Published | January 1943 |
| Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
| Pages | 68 |
| Editing | Whitney Ellsworth |
| Characters | The Sandman; Sandy; Genius Jones (inset); Starman (inset) |
| Genre | superhero |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Joe Simon ? |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Artwork on the Genius Jones inset by Stan Kaye. |
| Reprinted | In Sandman by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby, The (DC, 2009 series) #nn; in Golden Age Starman Archives, The (DC, 2000 series) |
| Characters | The Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; Sandy [Sandy Hawkins]; F. P. Miller; Peter Aloysius Vandergilt III; Mountain Man Bearde; Slicky (villain); Max (villain); Smoothe (villain) |
| Synopsis | A gang of crooks talk a dim-witted professional wrestler into playing Santa Claus at a local department store as a front for the commission of crimes. |
| Genre | superhero |
| Script | Jack Kirby (signed) |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby (signed) |
| Inks | Joe Simon ? (signed) |
| Letters | Howard Ferguson |
| Reprinted | in Limited Collectors' Edition (DC, 1972 series) #C-43; in The Sandman by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby (DC, 2009 series) #nn |
| Characters | Starman [Ted Knight]; Jim Hart; Isobelle Sandow; Norwood (villain); the Nazis (villains) |
| Synopsis | Young Jim Hart, a failure in life because he believes in astrology, invents a submarine detector that Starman uses to capture enemy forces and the man who once convinced Hart to follow astrological signs. |
| Genre | superhero |
| Pencils | Mort Meskin [as Morton Jr.] (signed) |
| Inks | George Roussos [as Roussos] (signed) |
| Reprinted | in Golden Age Starman Archives, The (DC, 2000 series) #2 (2009) |
| Characters | The Shining Knight [Sir Justin] |
| Genre | superhero |
| Pencils | Louis Cazeneuve |
| Inks | Louis Cazeneuve |
| Characters | Genius Jones |
| Genre | teen |
| Script | Alfred Bester |
| Pencils | Stan Kaye |
| Inks | Stan Kaye |
| Characters | Manhunter [Paul Kirk] |
| Genre | superhero |
| Script | Jack Kirby |
| Pencils | Pierce Rice |
| Characters | The Hourman [Rex Tyler]; Thorndyke Tompkins; Doc (villain, death); Slim (villain); Stumpy (villain) |
| Synopsis | A group of thugs break into the apartment of Rex Tyler and steal the Miraclo Ray machine. Coupled with a series of acquisitive instinct injections they've been receiving, it seems that the Hourman has no chance of defeating them. |
| Genre | superhero |
| Pencils | Bernard Baily |
| Inks | Bernard Baily |
| Letters | Bernard Baily |
| Notes | Writer credit revised from Ken Fitch? to ? and letterer credit added by Craig Delich 2010-2-22. In the story, Thorndyke wears a partial Hourman costume (red cape with yellow trim and an hourglass about his neck). The last panel, illustrated and lettered by Bernard Baily, is a plug for the Americommando strip in Action Comics, and pictures the Americommando and his villain, the terrible Little One. |