Issue | #84 |
Published | March 1943 |
Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
Pages | 68 |
Editing | Whitney Ellsworth |
Characters | The Sandman; Sandy; Starman (inset) |
Genre | superhero |
Pencils | Jack Kirby (signed as Kirby) |
Inks | Joe Simon? (signed as Simon) |
Reprinted | In Forever People, The (DC, 1971 series) #5 (October-November, 1971); in Sandman by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby, The (DC, 2009 series) #nn; in Golden Age Starman Archives, The (DC, 2000 series) #2 (2009) |
Characters | The Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; Sandy [Sandy Hawkins]; Stretcho (villain); Presto (villain); Midge (villain); Samson (villain) |
Synopsis | Sandman and Sandy must solve a series of unusual crimes being committed by members of the Mammoth Circus, who seem to always elude members of the Police with a getaway car that converts into a truck. |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Jack Kirby (signed) |
Pencils | Jack Kirby (signed) |
Inks | Joe Simon? (signed) |
Letters | Howard Ferguson |
Reprinted | in Forever People, The (DC, 1971 series) #5 (October-November 1971); in Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #495 (January 1983); in Sandman by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby, The (DC, 2009 series) #nn |
Characters | Starman [Ted Knight]; Slim Jordan (villain); Ratsy (villain) |
Synopsis | Starman's gravity rod is stolen from his wall safe and used by criminals to create a green death ray, a ray that strikes the Astral Avenger, resulting in a loss of memory. |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Gardner F. Fox |
Pencils | Emil Gershwin |
Inks | Emil Gershwin |
Reprinted | in Golden Age Starman Archives, The (DC, 2000 series) #2 (2009) |
Characters | The Shining Knight [Sir Justin] |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Ruth Lyons Kaufman [as Bunny Lyons] |
Pencils | Louis Cazeneuve |
Inks | Louis Cazeneuve |
Editing | Jack Schiff |
Notes | Script credits from Ruth Lyons Kaufman & Bill Jourdain article in Alter Ego #27, August 2003. Script was heavily edited by editor Jack Schiff. |
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 | Mike Gibbs |
Script | Joe Samachson |
Pencils | Irving Tirman |
Inks | Irving Tirman |
Notes | 1st appearance. Writer and artist credits verified by Jerry Bails and added by Craig Delich 2009-12-10. |