| Issue | #78 |
| Published | September 1942 |
| Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
| Pages | 68 |
| Editing | Whitney Ellsworth |
| Characters | The Sandman; Sandy; Manhunter; Starman (inset) |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby [as Kirby] (signed) |
| Inks | Joe Simon? [as Simon] (signed) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Reprinted | in New Gods, The (DC, 1971 series) #9; in The Sandman by Joe Simon & Jack Kirbvy (DC, 2009 series) #nn; in Golden Age Starman Archives, The (DC, 2000 series) #2 (2009) |
| Characters | Starman [Ted Knight]; Mike Muggins; Sonnie Hail (villain); Hartley Manners (villain); Van Camp (villain) |
| Synopsis | Starman and Mike Muggins look into a case where people stage an act, pretending to be attacked by "the little man who wasn't there", and robbed of valuable gems, only to be discovered in the end as perpetrating the act themselves! |
| Genre | superhero |
| Script | Alfred Bester |
| Pencils | Jack Burnley |
| Inks | Jack Burnley |
| Colors | Raymond Perry |
| Notes | Oddity: Starman seems to "adopt" Muggins in the last panel to be a partner of his in future adventures, but he never appears again. |
| Reprinted | in Golden Age Starman Archives, The (DC, 2000 series) #2 (2009) |
| Characters | The Hourman [Rex Tyler]; Thorndyke Tompkins; John Ward (death); Dr. Paul Hollman; Sir John Falstaff [Walker Cornell] (villain); Quanto (villain, Falstaff's butler) |
| Synopsis | A criminal, having been committed to a mental hospital by two acquaintances of his, swears revenge on both of them after he escapes. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Pencils | Bernard Baily |
| Inks | Bernard Baily |
| Letters | Bernard Baily? |
| Notes | Writer credit revised from Ken Fitch? to ? by Craig Delich 2010-2-7. Thorndyke wears a partial Hourman costume in this story (red cape w/yellow trim and hourglass). |
| Characters | Genius Jones |
| Genre | teen |
| Script | Alfred Bester |
| Pencils | Stan Kaye |
| Inks | Stan Kaye |
| Characters | The Shining Knight [Sir Justin]; The Black Baron (villain) |
| Genre | superhero |
| Script | Henry Lynne Perkins |
| Pencils | Louis Cazeneuve |
| Inks | Louis Cazeneuve |
| Notes | Writer credit verified by Martin O'Hearn. |
| Characters | Manhunter [Paul Kirk] |
| Genre | superhero |
| Script | Jack Kirby |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Joe Simon? |
| Letters | Howard Ferguson |
| Reprinted | in New Gods, The (DC, 1971 series) #9 (June-July 1972) |
| Characters | The Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; Sandy [Sandy Hawkins]; Beezer Banos (villain); Magno [Mugger Magoon](villain); Slippery Smith (villain); Hard Luck Hogan (villain). |
| Synopsis | A modern Houdini taxes the wits of the Sandman and Sandy, as the man accomplishes impossible feats while looting millions in riches and having airtight alibis. |
| Genre | superhero |
| Script | Jack Kirby (signed) |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby (signed) |
| Inks | Joe Simon? (signed) |
| Letters | Howard Ferguson |
| Reprinted | In The Sandman by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby (DC, 2009 series) #nn |