Adventure Comics #69

(December 1941)

Adventure of the Singapore Stranglers (Table of Contents)

Starman / comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Gardner F. Fox

Pencils:

Jack Burnley (signed)

Inks:

Jack Burnley (signed); Ray Burnley [backgrounds]

Colors:

Raymond Perry

Letters:

Betty Bentley

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

The Starman [Ted Knight]; Doris Lee; Woodley Allen; Jeeves (Knight's driver); Captain Fujiyama and the Singapore Stranglers (villains, introduction)

Synopsis:

Starman takes on a gang of saboteurs who are using a giant acetylene torch to badly damage ships while in the Gotham docks.

Reprints:

• in Golden Age Starman Archives (DC, 2000 series) #1 (April 2000)

Indexer Notes

Letterer & background credits added by Craig Delich 2008-2-28.

The Red Dragon (Table of Contents)

The Shining Knight / comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Creig Flessel

Inks:

Creig Flessel

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

The Shining Knight [Sir Justin]; The Red Dragon (villain, introduction)

[Dr. Wizen's Gorohs] (Table of Contents)

The Hourman / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Bernard Baily (signed)

Inks:

Bernard Baily (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

Bernard Baily

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

The Hourman [Rex Tyler]; Mr. Bannerman; Meadows (Tyler's landlord); Dr. Wizen (villain, introduction); The Gorohs (villains, half-man, half-ape creatures)

Synopsis:

A strange visitor from another planet is bent on conquering the universe and wishes to make sure that the Man of the Hour cannot interfere, so kidnaps Hourman and his supply of Miraclo.

Indexer Notes

Letterer credit added by Craig Delich 2008-2-23. Oddity: the last panel of the story, a blurb for the Spectre [as written by Jerry Siegel and drawn by Bernard Baily], strangely states that Baily was the creator of the Hourman!

[The Prehistoric Island] (Table of Contents)

Steve Conrad, Adventurer / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Jack Lehti

Pencils:

Jack Lehti

Inks:

Jack Lehti

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

Steve Conrad

[Bogus Bills] (Table of Contents)

Federal Men / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Chad Grothkopf

Inks:

Chad Grothkopf

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

detective-mystery

Characters:

Steve Carson

[The Ambergris Killers] (Table of Contents)

Paul Kirk, Manhunter / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Ed Moore

Pencils:

Ed Moore

Inks:

Ed Moore

Colors:

?

Letters:

Ed Moore

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Paul Kirk

Indexer Notes

Letterer credit added by Craig Delich 2008-2-23.

The Case of the Giant Bees (Table of Contents)

The Sandman / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Mort Weisinger

Pencils:

Paul Norris

Inks:

Chad Grothkopf

Colors:

?

Letters:

Chad Grothkopf

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

The Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; Sandy the Golden Boy [Sandy McGann](introduction); Bess Buttsford; Mr. Buttsford; The Queen Bee (villain, an insect)

Synopsis:

A scientist invents an unusual super thyroid extract which allows bees to gain gigantic size, and it's up to the Sandman, and his new partner, to save the man from the Queen Bee, who wishes to know the secret behind the extract.

Indexer Notes

New costume for Sandman. Pencil credit verified by Paul Norris per Craig Delich (November, 2004) and ink credit confirmed by Grothkopf. Norris was told to draw the story "in a Bob Kane style". Writer identification by Jerry Bails.