Adventure Comics #42

(September 1939)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1) (Expand) /

All-American Comics; Movie Comics / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

[The Three Sandmen] (Table of Contents: 2)

Sandman / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Bert Christman ? (signed)

Pencils

Bert Christman (signed)

Inks

Bert Christman (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Feature Logo

The Sandman [big long S]

Genre

superhero

Characters

Sandman [Wesley Dodds] (origin details); Teeter Sneed (villain, intro, Death); Dr. Clyde Dunlap (intro, forms "The Three Sandmen" with Wes Dodds); Happy O'Shea (intro, forms "The Three Sandmen" with Wes Dodds); Steve Weber

Synopsis

Wes joins up with two of his former service buddies to discover if Teeter Sneed has a hand in the killing of several of their old chums and threatening to do the same to several others.

Reprints

• in Golden Age Sandman Archives (DC, 2004 series) #1 ([December] 2004)

Indexer Notes

Sandman's origin mentions that he was in the service six years ago. Wesley Dodds does not appear as Sandman in this story.

Christman script credit suggested by Bob Hughes; we previously credited Gardner Fox. Synopsis added by Craig Delich.

[Scientists Honored by Danzig] (Table of Contents: 3)

Stamp Page / text article / 0.67 page (report information)

Script

Sidney Elias ?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Feature Logo

Adventure Stamp Page

Indexer Notes

Page includes several ads from stamps dealers.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4) (Expand) /

Brownie Stamps; Dolin Stamps; Eureka Stamps; Globus Stamps; Gray Stamps; Mortimer Ellis Stamps; Reyco Stamps; Roberts Stamps / advertisement / 0.33 page (report information)

[The Suicide of Major Duval, Part 5] (Table of Contents: 5)

Barry O'Neill / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Ed Winiarski (signed as Win)

Pencils

Ed Winiarski (signed as Win)

Inks

Ed Winiarski (signed as Win)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

adventure

Characters

Barry O'Neill; Krull (villain)

[Cal Grant's Payroll Robbery] (Table of Contents: 6)

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

Script

Jerry Siegel

Pencils

Wayne Boring

Inks

Wayne Boring

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

detective-mystery; crime

Characters

Cal Grant (villain, introduction); Lennie Trask (villain, introduction); their mob (villain, introduction); Steve Carson

Junior Federal Men Club (Table of Contents: 7)

text article / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

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

Sportettes / cartoon / 1 page (report information)

Script

Sheldon Moldoff

Pencils

Sheldon Moldoff (signed)

Inks

Sheldon Moldoff (signed)

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

8 fighters won the welterweight title, lost it, and recovered it...

Genre

non-fiction; sports

[The Fiddler and the Bank Robbers, Part 2] (Table of Contents: 9)

Jack Woods / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

Jim Chambers

Pencils

Jim Chambers

Inks

Jim Chambers

Colors

? (red tones)

Letters

?

Genre

detective-mystery; western-frontier

Characters

Jack Woods; Stomp McHenry; Sheriff Henkle; Slash Morlin (villain, death)

Indexer Notes

Last appearance.

First two pages are in red, black, and white; last two pages are in black and white.

[Awakened by 500-Pound Man-Eating Tiger Ready to Attack Him!!] (Table of Contents: 10)

AdventurEvents / cartoon / 1 page (report information)

Script

Terry Gilkison

Pencils

Terry Gilkison

Inks

Terry Gilkison

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

non-fiction; adventure

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 11)

Fantastic Facts / cartoon / 1 page (report information)

Script

George Papp (signed as GEP)

Pencils

George Papp (signed as GEP)

Inks

George Papp (signed as GEP)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

2 hungry fish -- Looks bad for the little fellow!

Genre

non-fiction

[The Flying Dutchman, Part 3] (Table of Contents: 12)

Socko Strong / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Joe Sulman (signed)

Pencils

Joe Sulman (signed)

Inks

Joe Sulman (signed)

Letters

?

Genre

adventure; sports

Characters

Socko Strong; Bennie (introduction, a Neanderthal man)

Indexer Notes

Story was printed in black and white.

[Miss America] (Table of Contents: 13)

Professor Doolittle / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Bob Kane

Pencils

Bob Kane

Inks

Bob Kane

Colors

?

Letters

Bob Kane ?

Genre

humor

Characters

Professor Doolittle

Indexer Notes

Letterer credit added by Craig Delich.

[Revolt of the Thugs, Part 2] (Table of Contents: 14)

Captain Desmo / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Ed Winiarski (signed as Win)

Pencils

Ed Winiarski (signed as Win)

Inks

Ed Winiarski (signed as Win)

Colors

? (see notes)

Letters

?

Genre

adventure

Characters

Captain Desmo; Abdul Hassan (villain); the Thugs (villain, death)

Indexer Notes

Story is in black and white, except for the feature logo panel which is in red tones.

Quest in India [Part 2] (Table of Contents: 15)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Terry Keane (credited)

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Genre

adventure

[Admiral Cato's Underwater Base] (Table of Contents: 16)

Anchors Aweigh! / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Bart Tumey

Pencils

Bart Tumey

Inks

Bart Tumey

Colors

? (see notes)

Letters

?

Genre

adventure; military

Characters

Admiral Cato (villain, introduction, death)

Indexer Notes

Story is in black and white, except for the feature logo panel which is in red tones.

[Kidnapping in the Orient] (Table of Contents: 17)

Skip Schuyler / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Tom Hickey

Pencils

Tom Hickey

Inks

Tom Hickey

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

adventure

Characters

Skip Schuyler; Hawkins (villain, intro); Lung Yen (intro); Diana Allen (intro)

[The Menace of Chen Fu, Part 2] (Table of Contents: 18)

Rusty and His Pals / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

Bill Finger

Pencils

Bob Kane

Inks

Bob Kane

Colors

?

Letters

Bob Kane

Genre

adventure; children

Characters

Rusty; Chen Fu (villain)

Indexer Notes

Letterer credit added by Craig Delich. Finger script credit from Bob Hughes; we previously credited Bob Kane, but that is unlikely according to Hughes.

In the Pit of Dagan (Table of Contents: 19)

Cotton Carver / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Gardner Fox

Pencils

Ogden Whitney (signed)

Inks

Ogden Whitney (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

adventure

Characters

Cotton Carver; Elara; Kothe; Volar; Narol (villain, introduction, death?); Jagar (villain, introduction); King Marl (introduction); Captain Kandul (introduction); Marlmen (introduction)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 20)

This Doggone World / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

Fred Schwab

Pencils

Fred Schwab

Inks

Fred Schwab

Colors

?

Letters

Fred Schwab

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Only two mutts showed up because it's raining! Too bad!

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Indexer Notes

Last appearance in Adventure Comics. Letterer credit added by Craig Delich.

The Comic Book of Tomorrow Is Here Today!! (Table of Contents: 21) (Expand) /

New York World's Fair Comics / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 22) (Expand) /

Johnson Smith & Co. Catalog / advertisement / 1 page (report information)