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ADVENTURE COMICS #70
Cover Date: January 1942
Cover Price: $.10
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Cover Credits:
Art: Jack Burnley
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Credits:
| Story | Alfred Bester |
| Art | Jack Burnley |
| Lettering | Betty Burnley |
| Colors | Raymond Perry |
| Associate editing | Mort Weisinger, Jack Schiff |
| Editing | Whitney Ellsworth |
Feature Character(s):
- Starman (last in All-Star Comics #8/2)
Supporting Character(s):
- Doris Lee (last in All-Star Comics #8)
- Woodley Allen
Villain(s):
- Baron X (first appearance; a chief of saboteur operations trying to prevent war materials in being shipped to England)
- Slick Seely and his gang (first appearance; a gang of thieves aiding Baron X)
Location(s):
Story Reprinted in:
- Golden Age Starman Archives #1 (2000)
Credits:
| Art | Craig Flessel |
| Lettering | Craig Flessel |
| Associate editing | Mort Weisinger, Jack Schiff |
| Editing | Whitney Ellsworth |
Feature Character(s):
- Shining Knight (next in flashback in Young All-Stars #22)
Supporting Character(s):
- Winged Victory (next in flashback in Young All-Stars #22)
- Professor Moresby (next in issue #72/2)
Villain(s):
- Kreld (first appearance; a banker who destroys levees so that banks can be looted using a small German submarine)
Location(s):
- near the Mississippi River
Comment(s):
- At some point early in his modern career, Sir Justin visits modern day England, which is retold in part in flashback in Young All-Stars #22.
Credits:
| Art | Bernard Baily |
| Lettering | Bernard Baily |
| Associate editing | Mort Weisinger, Jack Schiff |
| Editing | Whitney Ellsworth |
Feature Character(s):
- Hourman (Rex Tyler; next in Golden Age Secret Files #1/2)
Supporting Character(s):
- Alexander Bannermain (in between issues #65 and #72)
Villain(s):
- Globe-O (first appearance; a dwarf scientist who invents a "flying carpet" and Dodo, his twin brother)
Other Character(s):
- Mr. Atlas (first appearance; owner of Atlas Insurance Co.)
- Bert Izzle (first appearance; an electrical inventor of the "flying carpet")
Credits:
| Art | Chad Grothkopf |
| Lettering | Chad Grothkopf |
| Associate editing | Mort Weisinger, Jack Schiff |
| Editing | Whitney Ellsworth |
Feature Character(s):
Villain(s):
- Steel Plant saboteurs (first appearance of all)
Location(s):
Comment(s):
- Chad Grothkopf credited as Chad
Credits:
| Story | Ed Moore |
| Art | Ed Moore |
| Lettering | Ed Moore |
| Associate editing | Mort Weisinger, Jack Schiff |
| Editing | Whitney Ellsworth |
Feature Character(s):
Supporting Character(s):
Villain(s):
- Carter (first appearance; butler to a high society blackmailer)
Other Character(s):
- Arthur Brown (first appearance; one of Kellar's blackmail victims)
Comment(s):
- This Paul Kirk is not known to be related to the mystery man Paul Kirk, the Manhunter
Credits:
| Story | Mort Weisinger |
| Pencils | Paul Norris |
| Inks | Chad Grothkopf |
| Lettering | Chad Grothkopf |
| Associate editing | Mort Weisinger, Jack Schiff |
| Editing | Whitney Ellsworth |
Feature Character(s):
- Sandman
- Sandy, The Golden Boy (last name mistakenly given as McCann)
Villain(s):
- The Bookworm (first appearance; a criminal who steals literary artifacts; dies)