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Issue: Adventure Comics #93
Publication Date: August 1944
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Issues: #93 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: 06/20/1944
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 16 (8 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Whitney Ellsworth [as F. W. Ellsworth] (credited editor); Jack Schiff (actual editor)
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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Sleep for Sale

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby [as Kirby] (signed)
Inker(s): ? [as Simon] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Sandman
Character(s): The Sandman; Sandy; Starman (inset)
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In Issue: FlagGolden Age Starman Archives #2 published August 2009
In Issue: FlagThe Sandman by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby #[nn] published October 2009
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Pages: 1
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Editorial Advisory Board

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 0.33
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: For spine-tingling action...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.67
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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Sleep for Sale!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Joe Samachson
Penciller(s): Pen Shumaker
Inker(s): Pen Shumaker
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Sandman
Character(s): 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.
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Pages: 10
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Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jefferson Machamer (signed)
Inker(s): Jefferson Machamer (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Wheaties
First Line: Why not? They helped give me the energy...
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Pages: 1
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Roguery in Nine Reels!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Joe Samachson
Penciller(s): Louis Cazeneuve
Inker(s): Louis Cazeneuve
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Shining Knight
Character(s): The Shining Knight [Sir Justin]
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Pages: 9
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Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Syd Hoff (signed)
Inker(s): Syd Hoff (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Eveready
First Line: Don't worry, darling! There's nobody around!
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Pages: 1
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Gifts from the Stars!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Joe Samachson
Penciller(s): Emil Gershwin
Inker(s): Emil Gershwin
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Starman
Character(s): 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.
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In Issue: FlagGolden Age Starman Archives #2 published August 2009
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Pages: 8
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Jack Farr
Penciller(s): Jack Farr
Inker(s): Jack Farr
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Jack Farr
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Handy Andy
First Line: The inventor of 1001 breath-taking household devices...
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Pages: 1
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Snap Judgment

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Otis Warren
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 2
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Genius Jones Broadcasting

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Whitney Ellsworth
Penciller(s): Stan Kaye
Inker(s): Stan Kaye
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: teen
Feature(s): Genius Jones
Character(s): Genius Jones
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Pages: 6
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Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Popsicle
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The Peerless Puppets

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Joe Samachson
Penciller(s): Edmond Good
Inker(s): Edmond Good
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Feature(s): Mike Gibbs, Guerrilla
Character(s): Mike Gibbs
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Pages: 8
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Actually Fly

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Wheaties
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Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Ray McGill (signed)
Penciller(s): Ray McGill (signed)
Inker(s): Ray McGill (signed)
Letterer(s): Ray McGill
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Joe Jam
First Line: Hello Judy! Congratulate me...
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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The Mysterious Blonde

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Adventures of "R. C." and Quickie; Royal Crown Cola
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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