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Issue: Golden Age Starman Archives #2
Publication Date: August 2009
 
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Publisher: FlagDC
Indicia Publisher: DC Comics
On Sale Date: 06/24/2009
Volume: 2
Pages: 280
ISBN: 9781401222833
UPC/EAN: 978140122283355999
Price: $68.99 CAD
$59.99 USD
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Content Items: 58 (26 stories, 3 covers)
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Color: color
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Binding: hardcover with dustjacket
Publishing Format: collected edition
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The Golden Age Starman Archives Volume 2

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Title page, illustrated with an image from the splash page from the Starman story from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #81.
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Illustrated with an image from the Starman story from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #87.
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Finder's Keepers!

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Starman [Ted Knight]; Doris Lee; Woodley Allen; Honey Jenkins; the Mist (villain)
The Mist engages in a campaign using valuable items that people find on the street to hypnotize the finder, and later perpetrating thefts from those individuals.
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The Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; Sandy [Sandy Hawkins]; Manhunter [Paul Kirk]; Starman [Ted Knight] (inset)
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The Little Man Who Wasn't There!

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Starman [Ted Knight]; Mike Muggins; Sonnie Hail (villain); Hartley Manners (villain); Van Camp (villain)
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!
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Cobras of the Deep!

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The Tune of Terrific Toby

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The Starman [Ted Knight]; Terrific Toby [Toby Weems]; the Soup-Gang [Nick Armstrong, Muley, Joey] (villains, introduction for all)
When Toby Weems stages a phony rescue of his office staff from a so-called bomb, he becomes a hero, which has some advantages with scaring underworld hoods. But his ego begins bothering him, so he seeks out Starman to help make him a real hero!
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The Time-Machine Crime!

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Starman [Ted Knight]; William Shakespeare; Statler (villain); Noggin (villain); Four-Eyes (villain)
A gang uses a professor's time machine to travel into the past and bring William Shakespeare into the present, and use his ideas to commit crimes.
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Starman's Lucky Star!

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Starman [Ted Knight]; Woodley Allen; Doris Lee; Professor Leland Brown; Ray Talbot; Mr. Cord; Rufus Cord; Hunch Haggard (villain); Muggsy (villain); un-named astrologer (villain)
A blind young astronomer is mistakenly kidnapped and held for ransom, but when Starman arrives on the scene to round up the felons, a stray bullet brings sight back to the lad.
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Hitch a Wagon to the Stars

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Starman [Ted Knight]; Jim Hart; Isobelle Sandow; Norwood (villain); the Nazis (villains)
Young Jim Hart, a failure in life because he believes in astrology, invents a submarine detector that Starman uses to capture enemy forces and the man who once convinced Hart to follow astrological signs.
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Wish Upon a Star!

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Starman [Ted Knight]; Doris Lee; Red; Whitey Walsh; Freckles; Charley French; Fred Martini; Rooley Royce (villain)
Against all odds, Starman helps make the wishes of three young boys at the Perry Preparatory School come true.
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Nobody leave this magazine... A crime has been committed!!!
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The Doom from the Skies

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Starman [Ted Knight]; Slim Jordan (villain); Ratsy (villain)
Starman's gravity rod is stolen from his wall safe and used by criminals to create a green death ray, a ray that strikes the Astral Avenger, resulting in a loss of memory.
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The Amazing Dreams of Gentleman Jack

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The Sandman; Sandy; Gentleman Jack Jarvis; Starman (inset)
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The Constellations of Crime!

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Starman [Ted Knight]; Woodley Allen; Doris Lee; Astra (villain)
Starman faces the threat of a cunning astrologist whose gang commits their crimes under various signs of the zodiac.
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The Moonman's Muggs!

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Starman [Ted Knight]; The Moonman [Dennis Towns] (villain)
After losing all his money trying to break land speed records, Dennis Towns decides to fly off into space and to the Moon as a blind to cover for a series of robberies on Earth.
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Crime Paints a Picture!

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Starman [Ted Knight]; Doris Lee; Axel Elgren; Crabby Dan McGraw (villain)
Starman begins to wonder why an art studio hires the worst artist ever, who then proceeds to make sales of his paintings. Then the Astral Avenger discovers why: stolen jewels are hidden within the paintings!
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The Enigma of the Vanishing House!

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Starman [Ted Knight]; Macklin; Hans (villain)
Starman aids the FBI in discovering the purpose of a pipe used by the Germans to refuel enemy submarines off the coast.
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The Plundering Planets!

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Starman [Ted Knight]; Doris Lee; John Wilcox; the Sun (villain); the Moon (villain); Saturn (villain)
Escaping from prison, the Sun, Moon and Saturn make off with the Green Star, a very valuable emerald owned by John Wilcox. However, when Wilcox's children take off after the criminals, Starman loses no time in tracking all of them down: to recover the gem and save the criminals from the kids!
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Land Beneath the Fog!

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Starman [Ted Knight]; Barbara Mercer (scientist); Sir Bors [aka The Black]; Mantin the Magician (villain)
Starman enters into a land beneath the fog where a young girl is being held prisoner, and soon to be burnt at the stake, for being a witch.
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The Rising Star of Johnny Teach!

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Starman [Ted Knight]; Jabez Wilkens (Johnny's godfather, cameo in flashback); Mrs. Teach (Johnny's mother, cameo in flashback); Johnny Teach
From the moment he was born, Johnny Teach was told he had been born under an unlucky star, and things happening in life seemed to prove it. But when Johnny teams up with the Starman, the Astral Avenger proves to Johnny that stars have nothing to do with success.
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Pencils credited to Mort Meskin in this volume.
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The Three Comets!

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Starman [Ted Knight]; Mr. Quinn; Mr. Bingley; The Three Comets (villains)
Starman suspects three famed circus acrobats of the theft of some sapphires, but is puzzled how they knew who the person was who was carrying them.
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Sleep for Sale

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Gifts from the Stars!

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Starman [Ted Knight]; Hubert Marsden; Dr. Faraday; Gimpty Louie (villain)
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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Stars Fall on Allie Bammer!

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Starman [Ted Knight]; Alphonse Bammer; Blackie Kohl (villain)
Blackie Kohl uses a meteor shower to concoct a gimmick of getting his boys into the Allie Bammer estate to rob to their hearts content, but the Astral Avenger makes them see stars in the end.
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The Professor Plays Safe!

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Starman [Ted Knight]; Professor Lathrop Q. Barnes; G. Granville Lathrop; Terrible Toby (villain); Spike (villain)
Professor Barnes is on his way to the annual Astronomer's Convention, but accidentally attends the Eastern Banker's Convention and is locked in a supposed burglar-proof safe. When Barnes fails to show up at the Astronomer's Convention, Ted Knight switches to Starman to look for the missing professor.
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Prediction for Plunder!

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Starman [Ted Knight]; Caspar; A. Smithson Jones (editor); Moonface (villain); Moonface's gang (villains)
The editor of the "Weekly Horoscope" is visited by Ted Knight and a gang of criminals: Knight upset because a friend of his was worried sick by a prediction made, the crooks upset by the fact that predictions that were made didn't come true.
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Stolen Glory!

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Starman [Ted Knight]; Jimmy Wells; Wesley Vanderloot (villain); Snipes Simpson (villain); Slabs Grogan (villain)
Brilliant astronomer Jimmy Wells needs money to buy an observatory, and wealthy Wesley Vanderloot agrees to buy it for him providing Wells allows Vanderloot to take credit for all of Jimmy's discoveries. When Ted Knight begins to suspect the true reasons behind Vanderloot's success, it nearly costs Wells and Starman their lives.
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Hero of Dreams

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Art credited to Gil Kane in this volume.
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Twin Stars of Crime!

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Starman [Ted Knight]; Nugget (a dog); Professor Magnus; Turtleneck (villain); Ernie (villain); Big Foot Barnes (villain)
Starman discovers that one gang, which has been commiting jewel robberies, is planting evidence that incriminates another gang.
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My Fortune for a Star!

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Starman [Ted Knight]; Jonathan Warner; Mr. Helgisdorf; Gladys Gale; Hummer Jones (villain); the Purple Mob (villains)
Starman becomes involved in a situation where a man discovers a new star, and that man, needing a great amount of money, is willing to let the top bidder have the honor of having that star named for him!
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Life and Death of a Star!

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Starman [Ted Knight]; Finch (astronomer); Puggy Randall (villain); Ginzo (villain)
The "discovery" of a new star by a friend of Ted Knight leads Starman to discover that this star is actually an ordinary electric light bulb suspended in the air by a balloon filled with light gas! And it's being used to send information to Puggy Randall's old pals in the state prison in regards to a break-out.
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The Sun-Spot Scoundrel!

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Starman [Ted Knight]; Professor Riggler (astronomer); Perkins (villain, Riggler's assistant)
Starman confronts a professor who believes that sun-spot activity causes crime waves...and may even affect the Astral Avenger's famed Gravity Rod.
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The Meteor Mob!

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Starman [Ted Knight]; Shiver (villain); Shiver's gang (villains)
The Stellar Crime-Crusher faces a gang of crooks who use man-made meteors to conveniently land on a bank or jewelry store, making it easy pickings for them.
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