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Issue Details

Issue #93
Published August 1944
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing Whitney Ellsworth (credited), Jack Schiff (actual)

Cover Details - "Sleep For Sale"

Characters The Sandman; Sandy; Starman (inset)
Genre superhero
Pencils Jack Kirby (signed as Kirby)
Inks ? [as Joe Simon] (signed as Simon)
Reprinted In Sandman by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby, The (DC, 2009 series) #nn; in Golden Age Starman Archives, The (DC, 2000 series) #2 (2009)

10 page The Sandman story "Sleep For Sale"

Characters The Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; Sandy [Sandy Hawkins]; Mr. Kendall; Wide-Awake Willie [Mr. Williams](villain)
Synopsis Mr. Kendall goes to the Sleepatorium, a special dormitory that puts people to sleep when nothing else works. What he doesn't know, and that the Sandman discovers, is that a fellow patient, a criminal known as Wide-Awake Willie, also uses the facility as a blind to get sleep, when, in reality, he takes a delayed action drug that awakens him at a certain time so that he and his gang can rob Kendall's home.
Genre superhero
Script Joe Samachson
Pencils Pen Shumaker
Inks Pen Shumaker
Notes Art identifications made by Jerry Bails 2000-2-9, and confirmed to John Fallon by Gil Kane.

9 page The Shining Knight story "Roguery in Nine Reels"

Characters The Shining Knight [Sir Justin]
Genre superhero
Script Joe Samachson
Pencils Louis Cazeneuve
Inks Louis Cazeneuve

8 page Starman story "Gifts from the Stars"

Characters Starman [Ted Knight]; Hubert Marsden; Dr. Faraday; Gimpty Louie (villain)
Synopsis Dr. Faraday, denied funds for very expensive astronomy equipment by Hubert Marsden, decides to use methods developed by astronomy to open the supposed burglar-proof safe of Marsden to convince him that he is warranted the money.
Genre superhero
Script Joe Samachson
Pencils Emil Gershwin
Inks Emil Gershwin
Reprinted in Golden Age Starman Archives, The (DC, 2000 series) #2 (2009)

6 page Genius Jones story "Genius Jones Broadcasting"

Characters Genius Jones
Genre teen
Script Whitney Ellsworth
Pencils Stan Kaye
Inks Stan Kaye
Notes Credits added by Craig Delich August, 2005.

8 page Mike Gibbs, Guerilla story "The Peerless Puppets"

Characters Mike Gibbs
Script Joe Samachson
Pencils Edmond Good
Inks Edmond Good
Notes Inker credit, verified by Jerry Bails, added by Craig Delich 2009-12-23.