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ADVENTURE COMICS #50
Cover Date: May 1940
Cover Price: $.10
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Cover Credits:
Art: Bernard Baily (signed)
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Credits:
| Story | Ken Fitch |
| Art | Bernard Baily |
| Lettering | Bernard Baily |
| Editing | Whitney Ellsworth |
Feature Character(s):
Villain(s):
- Nick Bates and the Bates Gang (first appearance for all)
Other Character(s):
- James Carren (first appearance; an extorted race horse owner)
Location(s):
- New York City, NY
Story Reprinted in:
- The JSA All Stars Archives #1 (2007)
Credits:
| Story | Jerry Siegel |
| Art | Chad Grothkopf |
| Lettering | Chad Grothkopf |
| Editing | Whitney Ellsworth |
Feature Character(s):
Supporting Character(s):
- The Chief of the FBI
Villain(s):
- an insane inventor (first appearance; creates a beam that causes airplanes to crash; probably dies)
- Nitkoff (first appearance; a foreign agent; probably dies)
Other Character(s):
- Kale (first appearance; a bookkeeper who turns in his boss; nearly killed by Lazzara)
Comment(s):
- Chad Grothkopf credited as Chad
Credits:
| Story | Gardner Fox |
| Art | Craig Flessel |
| Editing | Whitney Ellsworth |
Feature Character(s):
- Sandman (last in Madame Xanadu Vol. 2 #15)
Supporting Character(s):
Villain(s):
- Tuffy Tonger and Limpy (first appearance for both)
Story Reprinted in:
- Golden Age Sandman Archives #1 (2004)
Credits:
| Story | Gardner Fox |
| Art | Jack Lehti |
| Editing | Whitney Ellsworth |
Feature Character(s):
Supporting Character(s):
- Deela
- Red Mike (becomes friends with Cotton and Deela)
Villain(s):
- Royal John Croatan (first appearance; king of the city of Croatan, a near subterranean Artic community heated by geysers)
Other Character(s):
- English/Indian descendants of Roanoke (first appearance for all)
- Henry Smith (first appearance; an inventor of a Giant Borer; see Comments)
Comment(s):
- The Giant Borer seen here looks similar to the one used by Klarion in Seven Soldiers: Klarion the Witch Boy #3 and the city shown here may be an outpost of Limbo Town, but occupied by the descendants of Indians taken by Mister Melmoth.
- This story continues directly into next issue.