Adventure Comics #80

(November 1942)

The Man Who Couldn't Sleep (Table of Contents)

The Sandman / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Jack Kirby (signed)

Pencils:

Jack Kirby (signed)

Inks:

Joe Simon ? (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

Howard Ferguson

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

The Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; Sandy [Sandy Hawkins]; Nick Parks; Felix Black (villain); Blackie (villain); Smokey (villain)

Synopsis:

The Sandman is able to assist a new criminal who suffers from the lack of sleep and has taken up crime only because he hasn't had a wink of sleep in 40 years, and needs something to occupy the long nights!

Reprints:

• in The Forever People (DC, 1971 series) #7 (February-March 1972)
• in Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #491 [Direct] (September 1982)
• in The Sandman By Joe Simon & Jack Kirby (DC, 2009 series) #[nn] ([August] 2009)

The Time-Machine Crime (Table of Contents)

Starman / comic story / 11 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Jack Burnley; Mort Meskin (page 10 panels 3-7, page 11)

Inks:

Jack Burnley; George Roussos (page 10 panels 3-7, page 11)

Colors:

Raymond Perry

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Starman [Ted Knight]; William Shakespeare; Statler (villain); Noggin (villain); Four-Eyes (villain)

Synopsis:

A gang uses a professor's time machine to travel into the past and bring William Shakespeare into the present, and use his ideas to commit crimes.

Reprints:

• in Golden Age Starman Archives (DC, 2000 series) #2 ([June] 2009)

Indexer Notes

The letterer is different on page 10 panels 3-7 and page 11 from the rest of the story; inker credit revised from ? to George Roussos by Craig Delich 2009-12-24.

Adventure of the Desperate Dragons (Table of Contents)

The Shining Knight / comic story / 11 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Joseph Greene?

Pencils:

Louis Cazeneuve

Inks:

Louis Cazeneuve

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

The Shining Knight [Sir Justin]

The Enigma of the Absent-Minded Artists (Table of Contents)

Genius Jones / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Alfred Bester

Pencils:

Stan Kaye

Inks:

Stan Kaye

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

teen

Characters:

Genius Jones

Man Trap Island (Table of Contents)

Manhunter / comic story / 9 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Jack Kirby

Pencils:

Jack Kirby

Inks:

Joe Simon ?

Colors:

?

Letters:

Howard Ferguson

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Manhunter [Paul Kirk]

The Case of the Sponsored Crooks (Table of Contents)

Hourman and Thorndyke / 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]; Thorndyke Tompkins; John Brown; Earl Adams; Mary Mode; Peter Fry; un-named radio show sponsor (villain)

Synopsis:

Hourman and four people who are famous in the world of wealth and industry are invited to appear on The Radio Treasure Hunt Show, each having to retrieve some odd item, the first returning winning $1000. However, it is Rex Tyler (not Hourman) and Thorndyke who soon discover the pattern of resulting robberies occuring in the city, as they target the very people appearing on the show.

Indexer Notes

Writer credit revised from Ken Fitch? to ? and letterer credit added by Craig Delich 2010-2-22. In this story, Thorndyke wears a partial Hourman costume with red cape having yellow trim and an hourglass about his neck. The last panel features Thorndyke giving a plug for the Americommando strip in Action Comics.