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Issue: Golden Age Sandman Archives #1
Publication Date: December 2004
 
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Issues: #1 of 1 Issue
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Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: DC Archive EditionsView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: DC Comics
On Sale Date: 10/20/2004
Volume: 1
Pages: 232
ISBN: 1401201555
UPC/EAN: 76194123991000111
Price: $76.95 CAD
$49.95 USD
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Content Items: 33 (22 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Hardcover
Color: color
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Paper Stock: glossy
Binding: hardcover with dustjacket
Publishing Format: collected edition
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26 Content Items from other Issues reprinted as/in this Issue:
FlagAdventure Comics #40 published July 1939 was [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
FlagAdventure Comics #40 published July 1939 was The Tarantula Strikes [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagAdventure Comics #41 published August 1939 was On the Waterfront [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagAdventure Comics #42 published September 1939 was [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
FlagAdventure Comics #42 published September 1939 was The Three Sandmen [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagAdventure Comics #43 published October 1939 was Island Uprising [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagAdventure Comics #44 published November 1939 was [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
FlagAdventure Comics #44 published November 1939 was The Sandman Meets the Face [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagAdventure Comics #45 published December 1939 was The Golden Gusher [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagAdventure Comics #46 published January 1940 was [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
FlagAdventure Comics #46 published January 1940 was The Sandman Meets with Murder [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagAdventure Comics #47 published February 1940 was [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
FlagAdventure Comics #47 published February 1940 was Lady in Evening Clothes [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagAdventure Comics #48 published March 1940 was Death to the D.A. [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagAdventure Comics #49 published April 1940 was Cold Cures and Crime [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagAdventure Comics #50 published May 1940 was Tuffy and Limpy's Revenge Plot [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagAdventure Comics #51 published June 1940 was [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
FlagAdventure Comics #51 published June 1940 was The Van Leew Emeralds [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagAdventure Comics #52 published July 1940 was [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagAdventure Comics #53 published August 1940 was The Loan Sharks [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagAdventure Comics #54 published September 1940 was Case of the Kidnapped Heiress [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagAdventure Comics #55 published October 1940 was The Star of Singapore [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagAdventure Comics #56 published November 1940 was The Crook Who Knew the Sandman's Identity [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagAdventure Comics #57 published December 1940 was To Hammer the Earth [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagAdventure Comics #58 [U.S. Cover Price Only] published January 1941 was Orchids of Doom [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagAdventure Comics #59 published February 1941 was The Story of the Flaming Ruby [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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[untitled]

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Sandman [Wesley Dodds]
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Table of Contents

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Foreword

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[untitled]

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; Zatara; Butch the Pup; The Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; Ginger Snap
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Sandman at the World's Fair

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Character(s): The Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; George Henry (Secret Service agent); Mr. Evarts (villain, President of the Dodds-Bessing Steel Corporation); Boris Leland (villain)
First Line: A high executive of the Dodds-Bessing Steel Corporation--
Synopsis: Wes and one of the executive officers at the Dodds-Bessing Steel Corporation are to meet several government agents at the Fair and turn over to them plans for a new raygun.
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Disclose Notes: First Sandman story to appear in print (before Adventure #40).
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[untitled]

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The Tarantula Strikes

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Sandman [Wesley Dodds] (introduction); Vivian Dale; The Tarantula [Mr. Crossart] (villain, introduction)
Synopsis: The Sandman comes up against a very crafty and dangerous adversary while investigating the kidnapping of a famed actress and subsequent demand for $500,000 ransom.
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Disclose Notes: The Sandman wears orange business suit thru #43. Sandman origin in Secret Origins (DC, 1986 series) #7.
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On the Waterfront

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; Wing (villain; introduction); Janice Blue (introduction)
Synopsis: The Sandman rescues a girl reporter, snooping aboard a ship dealing in illegal narcotics, after she jumps overboard after witnessing a murder.
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The Three Sandmen

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): 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.
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Disclose Notes: Sandman's origin mentions that he was in the service six years ago; Wesley Dodds does not appear as Sandman in this story.
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Island Uprising

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Character(s): The Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; Red Hatch (villain, introduction, death); Australia Nelson (introduction, a girl)
Synopsis: The Sandman rescues a girl from natives on an isle in the South Seas, then prevents the massacre of her father and his party.
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The Sandman Meets the Face

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Character(s): The Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; The Face (villain, introduction, death); Frowser (introduction); Billy Winnslow (introduction, death)
Synopsis: The near victim of an old-friend turned crook, Wes Dodds watches him shot dead by the Face, then changes to the Sandman to discover why the villain had it in for the young victim.
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Disclose Notes: Wes Dodds revealed to have lived in Hilltown as a boy. 1st Sandman in green suit. Art and lettering confirmed by Creig Flessel.
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The Golden Gusher

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; Gloria Gordon (villain, introduction); Rendle (villain, introduction); Doug Nye (introduction); Charley Jones (death)
Synopsis: A female singer is threatened to be kidnapped, but Sandman discovers she is in on the plot to do so in order to fleece an insurance company.
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The Sandman Meets with Murder

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Sandman [Wesley Dodds] (origin details); The Coin [Dudley Jones](villain, introduction, death); Charley Hall (introduction, death); Dora Luftus Hall (introduction, death); Nora Luftus (introduction)
Synopsis: Wes Dodds finds his old roommate from college dead and his wife also dead in an adjoining room, but is surprised, as the Sandman, when a girl identical to his buddy's wife comes onto the murder scene. Further investigation reveals that a counterfeiting racket is in progress...a racket that he must stop.
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Lady in Evening Clothes

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; Dian Belmont [aka "Diana Ware"] (intro); District Attorney Belmont (Dian Belmont's father); Trigger Hunt (villain); Black Bill Trent (villain)
Synopsis: Wes Dodds meets a mysterious "lady in evening clothes," who has been ordered to his home in order to rob his safe, and he is further mystified to discover she knows that he is the Sandman!
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Disclose Notes: Wesley Dodds called a "steel magnate" in this story. Art credited to Bert Christman in the book.
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Death to the D.A.

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; Judge Quick; Mae Trust; Mrs. Holt; Dian Belmont [the Lady in Red]; D.A. Belmont; Dr. Fulton (villain)
Synopsis: Dian invites Wes to a party dressed as the Sandman, so he can try and get to the bottom of death threats being made against her father.
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Common Cold- Uncommon Crime

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; Dr. Lovejoy (intro)
Synopsis: The death of several assistants to a famed scientist, claiming to be able to cure the common cold, leads the Sandman into the fray to prevent criminals from exploiting that cure to their own financial advantage.
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Disclose Notes: credited to Creig Flessel in book.
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The Sandman Goes to the World's Fair

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Character(s): The Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; Dian Belmont; D.A. Belmont; Aunt Agatha; Blackie Saunders (villain, cameo); "Slugger" Slade (villain); Butch (villain); un-named butler (villain)
Synopsis: Slugger Slade decides to retaliate against the District Attorney for his conviction by kidnapping Dian.
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Tuffy and Limpy's Revenge Plot

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; Dian Belmont; Toughy Tonger (villain, intro); Limpy (villain, intro)
Synopsis: Sandman aids Dian by attempting to stop a pair of convicted felons, who have escaped from prison, from murdering her district attorney father who sent them up.
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The Van Leew Emeralds

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; Dian Belmont; Larry Belmont; Mad Maddon (villain, introduction, death); Flip Benson (villain, introduction); Benson's hireling (villain, introduction); Frank Fencet (villain, introduction)
Synopsis: While searching a mug for the missing Van Leew Emeralds, the Sandman discovers a curious pawn ticket. So he changes to Wesley Dodds, picks up Dian, and then changes back to continue the search for the emeralds AND to figure out the significance of that pawn ticket.
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Wanted! Dead or Alive

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; Dian Belmont; Claudia Norgan (villain, intro); Amber Apple Gang (villains, intro for all)
Synopsis: While Wes is enjoying Dian's musical abilities at the piano, they hear, then encounter, a thief stealing some gloves from Dian's room belonging to Claudia Norgan and leaving an amber apple in its place.
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Disclose Notes: Flessel signed the strip in a newspaper found in the last panel on Page 4.
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The Loan Sharks

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Character(s): The Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; Ma Jenks; Dolly; Gunny (villain); Slick Sam (villain); Gorilla Gus (villain); unnamed loan sharks (villains)
Synopsis: Sandman comes to the rescue of a man beaten up for not re-paying a loan to some loan sharks, but when murder enters the picture, it's time for Sandman to take off the kid gloves.
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Case of the Kidnapped Heiress

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; Dian Belmont; Nana Martin (intro); Jim Holt (intro); un-named gang of kidnappers (villains, intro)
Synopsis: While attempting to help a friend, both Dian and Nana Martin are kidnapped by a gang of crooks, and the Sandman races to help save them and the ransom money that had been paid on their behalf.
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Disclose Notes: Flessel signed his last name on Page 7 in panel 4 on a tombstone.
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The Star of Singapore

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; Mrs. Hecker; Detective Brophy; Jed (villain, introduction); Hank (villain, introduction)
Synopsis: The Sandman is offered a $5000 reward for the safe return of the famed "Star of Singapore".
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The Crook Who Knew the Sandman's Identity

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Character(s): The Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; Dian Belmont; Squat Stacey and his gang (villains, introduction for all)
Synopsis: While out one evening, a gang of thugs enters and steals Dian's bracelet, and the Sandman heads out after them.....a situation that leads to the eventual kidnapping of Wes Dodds!
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To Hammer the Earth

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Character(s): The Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; Phoebe; Bill Williams (introduction, death); A mad scientist and his assistant (villains, introduction for both)
Synopsis: Sandman saves a girl who falls from the sky from a burning airplane, and who plays a role in the Sandman's battle against a crazed scientist who has invented the Atom-Smasher: a weapon that directs a stream of uranium atoms away from the Earth, then draws them back to pound against the Earth like a giant hammer!
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Orchids of Doom

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Character(s): The Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; Dian Belmont; Carla Nogades (introduction); Bill Howard (introduction); Pedro Nogades (villain, introduction)
Synopsis: The Sandman has to battle the effects of the deadly Orchid Aerides Farmerii, which can strip the human body of its flesh!
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The Story of the Flaming Ruby

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Character(s): The Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; Dian Belmont; Henry Jenks and his gang (villains, introduction for all)
Synopsis: Sandman must tackle the mystery of a huge blood red ruby that has a blood-stained curse behind it.
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Disclose Notes: Inker credit in Archives is given to Flessel.

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