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Issue Details

Issue #85
Published April 1943
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 68
Editing Whitney Ellsworth

Cover Details - "The Amazing Dreams of Gentleman Jack"

Characters The Sandman; Sandy; Gentleman Jack Jarvis; Starman (inset)
Genre superhero
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Joe Simon ?
Letters typeset
Reprinted in Forever People, The (DC, 1971 series) #4 (August-September, 1971); in Sandman by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby, The (DC, 2009 series) #nn; in Golden Age Starman Archives, The (DC, 2000 series) #2 (2009)

10 page The Sandman story "The Unholy Dreams of Gentleman Jack"

Characters Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; Sandy [Sandy Hawkins]; "Gentleman Jack" Jarvis (villain); Gus (villain)
Synopsis Hounded by dreams of the Sandman, when Gentleman Jack Jarvis is released from prison he swears that he will one day live in a suite of cells, come and go as he pleases with guards waiting on him hand and foot......but the Sandman will suffer in a solitary cell and made to die slowly!
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) #4 (August-September 1971); in Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #492; in Sandman by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby, The (DC, 2009 series) #nn

9 page Starman story "The Constellations of Crime!"

Characters Starman [Ted Knight]; Woodley Allen; Doris Lee; Astra (villain)
Synopsis Starman faces the threat of a cunning astrologist whose gang commits their crimes under various signs of the zodiac.
Genre superhero
Script Gardner F. Fox
Pencils Emil Gershwin
Inks Emil Gershwin
Reprinted in Golden Age Starman Archives, The (DC, 2000 series) #2 (2009)

9 page The Shining Knight story "The Scrap For Scrap"

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

8 page Genius Jones story "Way Down Yonder in the Corn Field"

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

9 page Manhunter story "The Mystery of the Monster Bird"

Characters Manhunter [Paul Kirk]
Genre superhero
Script Jack Kirby
Pencils Pierce Rice
Letters Howard Ferguson

8 page Mike Gibbs, Guerilla story "The School For Heroes"

Script Joe Samachson
Pencils Irving Tirman
Inks Irving Tirman
Notes Writer and art credits, confirmed by Jerry Bails, added by Craig Delich 2009-12-13. Lettering credit revised to ? from Howard Ferguson by Craig Delich 2009-12-13.