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ADVENTURE COMICS #74
Cover Date: May 1942
Cover Price: $.10
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Cover Credits:
Pencils: Jack Kirby
Inks: Joe Simon
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Credits:
| Story | Gardner Fox |
| 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 #10)
Supporting Character(s):
- Doris Lee (next in issue #76)
- Woodley Allen (next in issue #77)
Villain(s):
- Ivan Caroff (first appearance; invents a ray to "devolve" humans into animals hybrids; changed into a pig, then into his base elements)
- Klaw (first appearance; transformed into a "panther-man")
- Paul Duval (first appearance; an actor who thinks he undergoes treatment to become a Wolf-man for a movie)
Other Character(s):
- Carl Carey (first appearance; a physician who has a clinic on the outskirts of Gotham; Caroff's father)
Location(s):
Story Reprinted in:
- Golden Age Starman Archives #1 (2000)
Credits:
| Story | Joseph Greene |
| Art | Bernard Baily |
| Lettering | Bernard Baily |
| Associate editing | Mort Weisinger, Jack Schiff |
| Editing | Whitney Ellsworth |
Feature Character(s):
- Hourman (Rex Tyler; between All-Star Squadron #44 and #46)
Supporting Character(s):
Villain(s):
- Bugs Manders and Gimpy Gowan (first appearance for both; commits crimes stealing rare books and other antiquities)
Comment(s):
- Jimmy Martin is "out of town" with his mother.
Credits:
| Story | Henry Lynn Perkins |
| Art | Louis Cazeneuve |
| Lettering | Louis Cazeneuve |
| Associate editing | Mort Weisinger, Jack Schiff |
| Editing | Whitney Ellsworth |
Feature Character(s):
- Shining Knight (last in Leading Comics #2)
Supporting Character(s):
- Winged Victory (last in Leading Comics #2)
Villain(s):
- The Cloud (first appearance; a short man who kills an inventor for his "degravitizing ray")
Location(s):
- New York City, NY
Credits:
| Story | Jack Kirby, Joe Simon |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Joe Simon |
| Lettering | Howard Ferguson |
| Associate editing | Mort Weisinger, Jack Schiff |
| Editing | Whitney Ellsworth |
Feature Character(s):
- Manhunter (name now given as Paul Kirk)
Villain(s):
- Crusher Burns (first appearance; Public Enemy Number One)
- Big Droop (first appearance; rigs a scavenger hunt)
Other Character(s):
- Henry Dolan (first appearance; a young man who must bring in Public Enemy Number One for a scavenger hunt and to win his girlfriend's hand)
Story Reprinted in:
- New Gods #5/2 (October-November 1971)
Credits:
| Story | Jack Kirby, Joe Simon |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Joe Simon |
| Lettering | Howard Ferguson |
| Associate editing | Mort Weisinger, Jack Schiff |
| Editing | Whitney Ellsworth |
Feature Character(s):
- Sandman (last in All-Star Comics #10)
- Sandy, The Golden Boy
Villain(s):
- Professor Gaunt (Hiram Gaunt; first appearance; uses a helmet to increase his brain power three times)
Story Reprinted in:
- Forever People #9 (June-July 1972)
- Adventure Comics #498 (April 1983)
- The Sandman By Joe Simon & Jack Kirby (2009)