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ADVENTURE COMICS #79
Cover Date: October 1942
Cover Price: $.10
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Cover Credits:
Pencils: Jack Kirby (signed)
Inks: Joe Simon (signed)
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Credits:
| Story | Alfred Bester |
| Art | Jack Burnley |
| Colors | Raymond Perry |
| Associate editing | Mort Weisinger, Jack Schiff |
| Editing | Whitney Ellsworth |
Feature Character(s):
- Starman (last in All-Star Squadron #47; next in All-Star Squadron #64)
Villain(s):
- Soup-Gang (first appearance for all; Nick Armstrong named)
Other Character(s):
- Toby Weems (first appearance; a young musician who tries to make people believe he is brave)
Story Reprinted in:
- Golden Age Starman Archives #2 (2009)
Credits:
| Art | Bernard Baily |
| Lettering | Bernard Baily |
| Associate editing | Mort Weisinger, Jack Schiff |
| Editing | Whitney Ellsworth |
Feature Character(s):
- Hourman (Rex Tyler; uses Miraclo Ray; last behind the scenes in Young All-Stars #25; this story is briefly retold in Young All-Stars #27)
Supporting Character(s):
- Thorndyke (wears a cape a mask and an Hourglass in this story)
Villain(s):
- Gun Gunther and Prof Pitts and their gangs (first appearance for all; two crime bosses who team up; build a giant bell that causes people to go crazy when rung)
Credits:
| Story | Alfred Bester |
| Art | Stan Kaye |
| Lettering | Stan Kaye |
| Associate editing | Mort Weisinger, Jack Schiff |
| Editing | Whitney Ellsworth |
Feature Character(s):
Supporting Character(s):
- Mary Brown
Villain(s):
- German agents (first appearance for all)
- Crew of the U-39 (first appearance for all)
Other Character(s):
- A beggar who claims to be Adolf Hitler (first appearance; in a flashforward to 1992)
Location(s):
- New York City, NY
Comment(s):
- This story is told in flashback from Harvard University in 1992.
Credits:
| Art | Louis Cazeneuve |
| Lettering | Louis Cazeneuve |
| Associate editing | Mort Weisinger, Jack Schiff |
| Editing | Whitney Ellsworth |
Feature Character(s):
- Shining Knight (last in Young All-Stars Annual #1)
Supporting Character(s):
- Winged Victory
- Eve Barclay (next in issue #83/3)
Villain(s):
- Robbers (first appearance for all)
Other Character(s):
- Tracy Frazier (first appearance; a DA who gets the Shining Knight to accompany her to a party)
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 (last in Young All-Stars Annual #1; story retold in Young All-Stars #27)
Villain(s):
- Nazis (first appearance for all; dies)
Location(s):
Story Reprinted in:
- Detective Comics #440 (April-May 1974)
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 (next in World's Finest Comics #7/3)
- Sandy, The Golden Boy (next in World's Finest Comics #7/3)
Villain(s):
- Ruffy and his gang (first appearance for all)
Location(s):
- New York City, NY
Comment(s):
- While asleep, The Sandman travels back in time to the Revolutionary War.
Story Reprinted in:
- The Sandman By Joe Simon & Jack Kirby (2009)