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ADVENTURE COMICS #90

Cover Date: February-March 1944
Cover Price: $.10

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Cover Credits:
Pencils: Jack Kirby

Story: "Sleepy Time Crimes!" (10 Pages)

Credits:

Story	Jack Kirby, Joe Simon
Pencils	Jack Kirby
Lettering	Howard Ferguson
Associate editing	Mort Weisinger, Jack Schiff
Editing	Whitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

Sandman (last in flashback in JSA #18; next in All-Star Comics #20)

Sandy, The Golden Boy

Villain(s):

Weasel (first appearance; uses chemically treated flashbulbs to put robbery victims to sleep)

Location(s):

New York City, NY

Story Reprinted in:

The Sandman By Joe Simon & Jack Kirby (2009)

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Second Story: "Fish Are Such Liars!" (6 Pages)

Credits:

Story	Alfred Bester
Art	Stan Kaye
Lettering	Stan Kaye
Associate editing	Mort Weisinger, Jack Schiff
Editing	Whitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

Genius Jones

Villain(s):

Saboteurs (first appearance for all)

Location(s):

Yellowstone Park

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Third Story: "The Candid Criminal!" (9 Pages)

Credits:

Story	Joe Samachson
Art	Louis Cazeneuve
Lettering	Louis Cazeneuve
Associate editing	Mort Weisinger, Jack Schiff
Editing	Whitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

Shining Knight (between Leading Comics #9 and #10)

Supporting Character(s):

Winged Victory (between Leading Comics #9 and #10)

Professor Moresby (between Leading Comics #9 and #10)

Villain(s):

Slick Grogan (first appearance)

Other Character(s):

Tommy (first appearance; a remorseful crook)

Location(s):

New York City, NY

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Fourth Story: "The Land Beneath The Fog!" (9 Pages)

Credits:

Pencils	Mort Meskin
Inks	George Roussos
Associate editing	Mort Weisinger, Jack Schiff
Editing	Whitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

Starman (next in All-Star Comics #20)

Supporting Character(s):

Doris Lee (next in flashback in Starman Vol. 2 #79)

Villain(s):

Sir Bors the Black (first appearance; ruler of a small lost mideval kingdom)

Other Character(s):

Babs Mercer (first appearance; a scientist captured in a lost midieval kingdom)

Comment(s):

This is Doris Lee's final appearance in a Golden Age story.

Story Reprinted in:

Golden Age Starman Archives #2 (2009)

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Fifth Story: "Little Clerk -- What Now?" (9 Pages)

Credits:

Pencils	Pierce Rice
Lettering	Howard Ferguson
Associate editing	Mort Weisinger, Jack Schiff
Editing	Whitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

Manhunter

Villain(s):

Quick Trigger Quayle (Seymour Petty; first appearance; a gangster who hides out as a mild mannered store clerk)

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Sixth Story: "The Prisoner of the Castle!" (8 Pages)

Credits:

Story	Joe Samachson
Art	Edmond Good
Lettering	Edmond Good
Associate editing	Mort Weisinger, Jack Schiff
Editing	Whitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

Guerilla

Supporting Character(s):

Marie Hwart

Sonia Hwart (first appearance; Marie's nearly identical sister)

Villain(s):

Count Di Orstero (first appearance; a facist)

Orva (first appearance; Italian Secret Police)

Location(s):

Northern Italy

Comment(s):

Guerilla leaves a Lincoln penny as his calling card.

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