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Issue: Adventure Comics #69
Publication Date: December 1941
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Issues: #69 of 472 Issues (530 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: A Superman DC PublicationView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Detective Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 10/29/1941
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 20 (8 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from copyright registration.

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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S.; standard Silver Age U.S.; standard Modern Age U.S.; digest (5" x 6.75") (#491-503)
Paper Stock: glossy cover (#32-490); cardstock cover (#491-503); newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched; squarebound (#390, 416, 491-503)
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Starman
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In Issue: FlagGolden Age Starman Archives #1 published July 2000
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Superman Krypto-Raygun

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Credits
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Daisy Manufacturing Company
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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Adventure of the Singapore Stranglers

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): 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.
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In Issue: FlagGolden Age Starman Archives #1 published July 2000
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Pages: 13
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Baby Ruth
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Pages: 1
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The Red Dragon

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Shining Knight [Sir Justin]; The Red Dragon (villain, introduction)
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Pages: 13
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Editorial Advisory Board

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 0.33
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Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Good Books and Movies
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Pages: 0.67
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Dr. Wizen's Gorohs

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): 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.
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: 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!
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Flex-i-Track
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Pages: 0.5
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Built-Rite Toys
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Pages: 0.5
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The Prehistoric Island

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Steve Conrad, Adventurer
Character(s): Steve Conrad
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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Good Memory

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1.25
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 0.75
Disclose Notes: Several small ads on both pages of the text story.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Character(s): Henry Bremer; Mike; Travers
First Line: Precious plates disappear from the mind! Bogus bills flood the country, and when cunning counterfeiters match wits with Steve Carson, they learn how futile it is to try to conquer the courage of the crack operative of the F.B.I.
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Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: A box beneath the final panel on the last page promotes the recurring feature: "Steve Carson ace of the F.B.I. appears in every issue of Adventure Comics!"
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The Ambergris Killers

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Paul Kirk, Manhunter
Character(s): Paul Kirk
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Pages: 6
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The Case of the Giant Bees!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Sandman
Character(s): 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.
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: New costume for Sandman. Norris was told to draw the story "in a Bob Kane style".
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Superman; World's Finest Comics; Batman
First Line: Here are three other leaders...
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Pages: 0.5
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Lionel
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Pages: 0.5
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): National Radio Institute
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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Writer(s): ?
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Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Daisy Air Rifles
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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