Adventure Comics, #80
Published: November 1942
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Issue Contents:
Credits
- Pencils: Jack Kirby
- Inks: Joe Simon (uncertain)
Editorial Advisory Board
Story Notes
Inside front cover.
Featuring Good Books Worth Reading
Story Notes
Inside front cover.
The Man Who Couldn't Sleep!
Storyline
The Sandman is able to assist a new criminal who suffers from the lack of sleep and has taken up crime only because he hasn't had a wink of sleep in 40 years, and needs something to occupy the long nights!
Credits
- Script: Jack Kirby
- Pencils: Jack Kirby
- Inks: Joe Simon (uncertain)
- Letters: Howard Ferguson
"You mean everything doesn't go?"
Credits
- Script: Henry Boltinoff
- Pencils: Henry Boltinoff
- Inks: Henry Boltinoff
Featuring All-Star Comics; The Justice Society of America
"Here it is again!"
The Time-Machine Crime!
Storyline
A gang uses a professor's time machine to travel into the past and bring William Shakespeare into the present, and use his ideas to commit crimes.
Credits
- Script: Alfred Bester
- Pencils: Jack Burnley
- Pencils: Mort Meskin
- Inks: Jack Burnley
- Inks: Ray Burnley
- Inks: George Roussos
- Colors: Luca Maresca
- Letters: Betty Bentley
Story Notes
The letterer is different on page 10 panels 3-7 and page 11 from the rest of the story and is definitely not Betty Bentley. Background inker credit by Craig Delich. George Roussos inks credit per Craig Delich.
Poland Lives On
Credits
- Script: Manfred Hofmann
Story Notes
Page includes many small ads from stamps dealers.
Adventure of the Desperate Dragons
Credits
- Script: Jonathon Dalton (uncertain)
- Pencils: Louis Cazeneuve
- Inks: Louis Cazeneuve
Coo-Coo
"Gzaw-w-w-w-w-w..."
Story Notes
A few small ads.
Featuring Leading Comics
"Like a broken drum..."
The Enigma of the Absent-Minded Artists!
Credits
- Script: Alfred Bester
- Pencils: Stan Kaye
- Inks: Stan Kaye
Don't Miss Your Favorites!
Man Trap Island!
Credits
- Script: Jack Kirby
- Pencils: Jack Kirby
- Inks: Joe Simon (uncertain)
- Letters: Howard Ferguson
Good Old Joe
Credits
- Script: Bill Ayres
The Case of the Sponsored Crooks!
Storyline
Hourman and four people who are famous in the world of wealth and industry are invited to appear on The Radio Treasure Hunt Show, each having to retrieve some odd item, the first returning winning $1000. However, it is Rex Tyler (not Hourman) and Thorndyke who soon discover the pattern of resulting robberies occurring in the city, as they target the very people appearing on the show.
Credits
- Pencils: Bernard Baily
- Inks: Bernard Baily
- Letters: Bernard Baily
Story Notes
Ken Fitch script credit removed and letterer credit added by Craig Delich. In this story, Thorndyke wears a partial Hourman costume with red cape having yellow trim and an hourglass about his neck. The last panel features Thorndyke giving a plug for the Americommando strip in Action Comics.
Story Notes
Inside back cover.
Energy That's Ready for Action!
Story Notes
Back cover.