Adventure Comics, #43
Published: October 1939
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Issue Contents:
Credits
- Pencils: Fred Guardineer
- Inks: Fred Guardineer
Story Notes
We previously suggested Creig Flessel as cover artist.
Story Notes
Inside front cover.
Island Uprising (1)
Storyline
The Sandman rescues a girl from natives on an isle in the South Seas, then prevents the massacre of her father and his party.
Credits
- Script: Bert Christman
- Pencils: Bert Christman
- Inks: Bert Christman
Story Notes
Christman script credit per Bob Hughes; we previously credited Gardner Fox. Synopsis added by Craig Delich.
Harry Thomas (1)
Credits
- Script: Sheldon Moldoff
- Pencils: Sheldon Moldoff
- Inks: Sheldon Moldoff
A Bike for You
The Return of Fang Gow, Part 1 (1)
Credits
- Script: Ed Winiarski
- Pencils: Jerzy Młynarczyk
- Inks: Jerzy Młynarczyk
"May I have a bottle of Gorman's cough medicine?"
Characters
- Steve Carson (mainstream Universe)
- The Chief (mainstream Universe)
Credits
- Script: Jimmy Hansen
- Pencils: Wayne Boring
- Inks: Wayne Boring
"Hello again, Members! This month I want to tell you how the modern art of hunting criminals makes it increasingly difficult of the "old fashioned" style of burglar or murderer to make a clean escape from justice."
Storyline
The column discusses how modern crime-fighting and detection techniques and conventions make if difficult for "old fashioned" criminals to escape justice.
Story Notes
The page includes a clip-and-mail coupon that could be sent, along with 10 cents, to "enlist" in the Junior Federal Men Club. Those who joined received a badge, certificate and Operator's number.
Forthcoming U. S. Stamp; Bulgarian News; Another Red Cross Stamp; Random Notes (1)
Story Notes
Page includes several small ads from stamps dealers.
The Poor Fish
Test Dive
Credits
- Script: Terry Keane
Free Attracive Catalog
"Good dog Butch!"
Credits
- Script: Fred Schwab
- Pencils: Fred Schwab
- Inks: Fred Schwab
- Letters: Fred Schwab
Story Notes
Letterer credit added by Craig Delich.
The Flying Dutchman, Part 4 (1)
Credits
- Script: Chris Carlisle
- Pencils: Chris Carlisle
- Inks: Chris Carlisle
A Playboy in King Arthur's Court, Part 5 (1)
Credits
- Script: Fred Schwab
- Pencils: Fred Schwab
- Inks: Fred Schwab
- Letters: Fred Schwab (uncertain)
Story Notes
Last installment. Creator credits by Craig Delich.
Count Ogrloff's Dangerous Game, Part 1 (1)
Credits
- Script: Ed Winiarski
- Pencils: Jerzy Młynarczyk
- Inks: Jerzy Młynarczyk
"Armed only with spear 'Tiger Man' has slain 134 treacherous jaguars..."
Credits
- Script: Terry Gilkison
- Pencils: Terry Gilkison
- Inks: Terry Gilkison
"Theodore Roosevelt -- While boxing with a friend at the White House..."
Credits
- Script: Sheldon Moldoff
- Pencils: Sheldon Moldoff
- Inks: Sheldon Moldoff
The Devil's Physician (1)
Credits
- Script: Bart Tumey
- Pencils: Bart Tumey
- Inks: Bart Tumey
Story Notes
Story title taken from next issue blurb in previous issue.
The General's Daughter (1)
Credits
- Script: Tom Hickey
- Pencils: Tom Hickey
- Inks: Tom Hickey
The Menace of Chen Fu, Part 3 (1)
Credits
- Script: Bill Finger
- Pencils: Bob Kane
- Inks: Bob Kane
- Letters: Bob Kane
Story Notes
Letterer credit added by Craig Delich. Finger script credit from Bob Hughes; we previously credited Bob Kane, but that is unlikely according to Hughes.
The Revolt of the Pirates
Credits
- Script: Gardner Fox
- Pencils: Ogden Whitney
- Inks: Ogden Whitney
The Sandman at the World's Fair!
Featuring New York World's Fair Comics
"Read this thrilling episode in..."
Characters
- Wesley Dodds (mainstream Universe)
- Clark Kent (mainstream Universe)
- Sandman (mainstream Universe)
- Superman (mainstream Universe)
- Zatara (mainstream Universe)
Credits
- Pencils: Vin Sullivan
- Pencils: Fred Guardineer
- Inks: Vin Sullivan
- Inks: Fred Guardineer
Story Notes
House ad for the 1939 issue of New York World's Fair Comics, including a rendering of the cover and an image of the Sandman (taken from the cover and recolored).
Story Notes
Inside back cover.
Be a Frontiersman
Story Notes
Back cover.