Issue | #71 |
Published | February 1942 |
Cover Price | 0.10 |
Pages | 68 |
Editing | Whitney Ellsworth |
Characters | The Starman |
Genre | superhero |
Pencils | Jack Burnley |
Inks | Jack Burnley |
Letters | typeset |
Reprinted | in Golden Age Starman Archives (DC, 2000 series) #1 |
Characters | The Starman [Ted Knight]; Doris Lee; Woodley Allen; Police Captain Ryan; Professor Juniper Grimm; The Unknown (The Light in disguise, villain); Slugger (villain) |
Synopsis | A kindly professor creates a steel time-sphere, which is stolen and used by a gang of crooks to travel into the future, who then unleash flaming thunderbolts and giants in bullet-proof suits to terrorize the citizens of today. |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Gardner F. Fox |
Pencils | Jack Burnley (signed) |
Inks | Jack Burnley (signed); Ray Burnley [backgrounds] |
Colors | Raymond Perry |
Letters | Betty Bentley |
Notes | Letterer and background credits added by Craig Delich 2008-2-23. |
Reprinted | in Golden Age Starman Archives (DC, 2000 series) #1 |
Characters | The Shining Knight [Sir Justin] |
Genre | superhero |
Pencils | Creig Flessel |
Inks | Creig Flessel |
Characters | Steve Conrad |
Genre | adventure |
Script | Jack Lehti |
Pencils | Jack Lehti |
Inks | Jack Lehti |
Characters | The Hourman [Rex Tyler]; Dr. Destiny; Jimmy Martin; Thorndyke; Minute Men of America; Henry Marshall (death); Darius Carter; Mr. Stone (villain) |
Synopsis | An astrologist is fired from radio station WHON for poor ratings, but he swears revenge against the station owner and the Board Of Directors of the Century Syndicate, which operates the station. |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Ken Fitch? |
Pencils | Bernard Baily (signed) |
Inks | Bernard Baily (signed) |
Letters | Bernard Baily |
Notes | Letterer credit added by Craig Delich 2008-2-23. This story features the first appearance of Jimmy Martin in his specially made Hourman costume, plus the first appearance of the Miraclo Ray device, which allows Hourman to absorb Miraclo externally rather than internally with a pill. |
Characters | Paul Kirk |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Ed Moore |
Pencils | Ed Moore |
Inks | Ed Moore |
Letters | Ed Moore |
Notes | Letterer credit added by Craig Delich 2008-2-23. |
Characters | The Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; Sandy [Sandy McGann]; Satan (villain, death) |
Synopsis | While traveling, Wes and Sandy stop for the night at an inn, but are intrigued by a story told by the inn-keeper. In it, he mentions that the road near the inn has been traveled by many people over the last twenty years, but no one has ever returned from their journey on it, including his son. |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Mort Weisinger |
Pencils | Paul Norris |
Inks | Chad Grothkopf |
Letters | Chad Grothkopf |
Notes | Pencil credit verified by Paul Norris per Craig Delich (November, 2004), inker credit confirmed by Grothkopf and writer identified by Jerry Bails. Norris was told to draw the story "in a Bob Kane style". |