Adventure Comics, #69
Published: December 1941
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Credits
- Pencils: Jack Burnley
- Inks: Jack Burnley
Superman Krypto-Raygun
Storyline
Ad by Daisy Manufacturing Company.
Story Notes
Inside front cover.
Adventure of the Singapore Stranglers
Storyline
Starman takes on a gang of saboteurs who are using a giant acetylene torch to badly damage ships while in the Gotham docks.
Credits
- Script: Gardner Fox
- Pencils: Jack Burnley
- Inks: Jack Burnley
- Inks: Ray Burnley
- Colors: Luca Maresca
- Letters: Betty Bentley
Story Notes
Letterer and background credits added by Craig Delich.
The Red Dragon (1)
Credits
- Pencils: Creig Flessel
- Inks: Creig Flessel
Editorial Advisory Board
Credits
- Script: Paul J. Bolger
Dr. Wizen's Gorohs (1)
Storyline
A strange visitor from another planet is bent on conquering the universe and wishes to make sure that the Man of the Hour cannot interfere, so kidnaps Hourman and his supply of Miraclo.
Credits
- Pencils: Bernard Baily
- Inks: Bernard Baily
- Letters: Bernard Baily
Story Notes
Letterer credit added by Craig Delich. Oddity: the last panel of the story, a blurb for the Spectre (as written by Jerry Siegel and drawn by Bernard Baily) strangely states that Baily was the creator of the Hourman!
The Prehistoric Island (1)
Credits
- Script: Jack Lehti
- Pencils: Jack Lehti
- Inks: Jack Lehti
Story Notes
"Steve Conrad, Adventurer"
Good Memory
Credits
- Script: Alex Massacci
Story Notes
Several small ads on both pages of the text story.
"Precious plates disappear from the mind! Bogus bills flood the country, and when cunning counterfeiters match wits with Steve Carson, they learn how futile it is to try to conquer the courage of the crack operative of the F.B.I."
Characters
- Steve Carson (mainstream Universe)
Credits
- Pencils: Chad Grothkopf
- Inks: Chad Grothkopf
Story Notes
A box beneath the final panel on the last page promotes the recurring feature: "Steve Carson ace of the F.B.I. appears in every issue of Adventure Comics!"
The Ambergris Killers (1)
The Case of the Giant Bees!
Storyline
A scientist invents an unusual super thyroid extract which allows bees to gain gigantic size, and it's up to the Sandman, and his new partner, to save the man from the Queen Bee, who wishes to know the secret behind the extract.
Credits
- Script: Mort Weisinger
- Pencils: Paul Norris
- Inks: Chad Grothkopf
- Letters: Chad Grothkopf
Story Notes
New costume for Sandman. Pencil credit verified by Paul Norris per Craig Delich and ink credit confirmed by Grothkopf. Norris was told to draw the story "in a Bob Kane style." Writer identification by Jerry Bails.
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"Here are three other leaders..."
Story Notes
Inside back cover.
Story Notes
Back cover.