Adventure Comics #69

(December 1941)

Superman Krypto-Raygun (Table of Contents: 1)

Daisy Manufacturing Company / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

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Indexer Notes

Inside front cover.

Adventure of the Singapore Stranglers (Table of Contents: 2)

Starman / comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Script

Gardner Fox

Pencils

Jack Burnley (signed)

Inks

Jack Burnley (signed); Ray Burnley (backgrounds)

Colors

Raymond Perry

Letters

Betty Bentley

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 ([July] 2000)

Indexer Notes

Letterer and background credits added by Craig Delich.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

Baby Ruth / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

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[The Red Dragon] (Table of Contents: 4)

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

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Creig Flessel

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Creig Flessel

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Genre

superhero

Characters

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

Editorial Advisory Board (Table of Contents: 5)

promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.33 page (report information)

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

Good Books and Movies / text article / 0.67 page (report information)

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Josette Frank

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[Dr. Wizen's Gorohs] (Table of Contents: 7)

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

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Pencils

Bernard Baily (signed)

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Bernard Baily (signed)

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Bernard Baily (signed)

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.

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!

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

Flex-i-Track / advertisement / 0.5 page (report information)

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[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 9)

Built-Rite Toys / advertisement / 0.5 page (report information)

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[The Prehistoric Island] (Table of Contents: 10)

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

Script

Jack Lehti

Pencils

Jack Lehti

Inks

Jack Lehti

Colors

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Genre

adventure

Characters

Steve Conrad

Good Memory (Table of Contents: 11)

text story / 1.25 pages (report information)

Script

Edgar Weston

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

advertisement / 0.75 page (report information)

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Indexer Notes

Several small ads on both pages of the text story.

[Bogus Bills] (Table of Contents: 13)

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

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Pencils

Chad Grothkopf

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Chad Grothkopf

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Genre

detective-mystery; crime

Characters

Steve Carson

[The Ambergris Killers] (Table of Contents: 14)

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

Script

Ed Moore

Pencils

Ed Moore

Inks

Ed Moore

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Ed Moore

Genre

superhero

Characters

Paul Kirk

Indexer Notes

Letterer credit added by Craig Delich.

The Case of the Giant Bees! (Table of Contents: 15)

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

Script

Mort Weisinger

Pencils

Paul Norris

Inks

Chad Grothkopf

Colors

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Letters

Chad Grothkopf

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 and ink credit confirmed by Grothkopf. Norris was told to draw the story "in a Bob Kane style." Writer identification by Jerry Bails.

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Superman; World's Finest Comics; Batman / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page (report information)

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

Here are three other leaders...

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Lionel / advertisement / 0.5 page (report information)

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[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 18)

National Radio Institute / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

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Inside back cover.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 19)

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

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Back cover.