Adventure Comics #67

(October 1941)

A Message to Our Readers (Table of Contents: 1) (Expand) /

promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

The Menace of the Invisible Raiders! (Table of Contents: 2)

Starman / comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Script

Alfred Bester

Pencils

Jack Burnley (signed)

Inks

Jack Burnley (signed); Ray Burnley (backgrounds)

Colors

Raymond Perry

Letters

Betty Bentley

Genre

superhero

Characters

Starman [Ted Knight]; Doris Lee; Woodley Allen; The Mist (villain, introduction)

Synopsis

Starman is mystified when he discovers crooks who are invisible in ordinary light, but soon learns of the man behind it: a man who is bitter at the government for rejecting his inviso-solution!

Reprints

• in Superman (DC, 1939 series) #252 (June 1972)
• in All Star Adventure Comic (K. G. Murray, 1959 series) #86 ([April 1974] ?)
• in The Greatest Golden Age Stories Ever Told (DC, 1990 series) ([March] 1990)
• in Golden Age Starman Archives (DC, 2000 series) #1 ([July] 2000)

Keywords

Gravity Rod

Indexer Notes

Writer credit from Martin O'Hearn. Background inks and letterer credits by Craig Delich.

[The Sky Pirates] (Table of Contents: 3)

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

Script

Henry Lynne Perkins

Pencils

Creig Flessel

Inks

Creig Flessel

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

The Shining Knight [Sir Justin]

Indexer Notes

Writer verified by Martin O'Hearn.

Energy to Perform (Table of Contents: 4) (Expand) /

Baby Ruth / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

[Reform School Racket] (Table of Contents: 5)

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

Script

?

Pencils

Bernard Baily (signed)

Inks

Bernard Baily (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

Bernard Baily (signed)

Genre

superhero

Characters

The Hourman [Rex Tyler]; Willie Jones; un-named State Governor; Mr. Meade (villain); Big Red (villain)

Synopsis

Rex Tyler, while delivering chemicals to the Meade Crop Dusters, discovers that boys from the State Reform School are being send to the company to learn trades. However, Hourman discovers that the boys are being made to fly the crop dusting planes themselves, some dying in fatal crashes.

Indexer Notes

Letterer credit added by Craig Delich.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 6)

Good Books and Movies / text article / 1 page (report information)

Script

Josette Frank

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 7)

Jest Jokes / cartoon / 0.67 page (report information)

Script

Ray McGill (signed)

Pencils

Ray McGill (signed)

Inks

Ray McGill (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Some day, I'm gonna be a very rich man...

Genre

humor

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 8) (Expand) /

advertisement / 0.33 page (report information)

[Strange Secret of Greed] (Table of Contents: 9)

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

Script

?

Pencils

Cliff Young

Inks

Cliff Young

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

adventure

Characters

Steve Conrad

[The Proving-Ground Spies] (Table of Contents: 10)

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

Script

?

Pencils

Chad Grothkopf

Inks

Chad Grothkopf

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

detective-mystery; crime

Characters

Steve Carson

Paint Job (Table of Contents: 11)

text story / 1.67 pages (report information)

Script

Edgar Weston

Pencils

Cliff Young

Inks

Cliff Young

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 12) (Expand) /

advertisement / 0.33 page (report information)

[The Ten-Dollar Masterpiece] (Table of Contents: 13)

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

Script

Ed Moore

Pencils

Ed Moore

Inks

Ed Moore

Colors

?

Letters

Ed Moore

Genre

superhero

Characters

Paul Kirk

Indexer Notes

Letterer credit added by Craig Delich.

[The Secret of the Man in Miniature] (Table of Contents: 14)

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

Script

?

Pencils

Paul Norris

Inks

Paul Norris

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

The Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; District Attorney Belmont; Dian Belmont; Mr. Hartford; Professor Doombie (villain)

Synopsis

An evil professor succeeds in creating Serum One, a formula that compresses the atoms of the body, reducing it in size, and he uses that ability to not only carry out crime after crime, but to shrink the Sandman in the process so that he cannot interfere!

Indexer Notes

Art credits verified by Paul Norris per Craig Delich.

Oddity: the splash page dialogue spell's the professor's name as "Doobie."

The Justice Society of America Proudly Presents All-Star No. 7! (Table of Contents: 15) (Expand) /

All-Star Comics; The Justice Society of America / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 16) (Expand) /

Johnson Smith & Company / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 17) (Expand) /

Daisy Air Rifles / advertisement / 1 page (report information)