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"Starman: "The Strange Case of the Luckless Liars"": Ted Knights joins a "Liars' Club", and as part of his initiation tells a ridiculous tale none of them believe: that he's Starman. The others all start telling tall tales about how Starman turned to crime and they were his victims, but in the m

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The Sandman

Adventure Comics #75 is an issue of the series Adventure Comics (Volume 1) with a cover date of June, 1942.

Synopsis for Starman: "The Strange Case of the Luckless Liars"

Ted Knights joins a "Liars' Club", and as part of his initiation tells a ridiculous tale none of them believe: that he's Starman. The others all start telling tall tales about how Starman turned to crime and they were his victims, but in the middle of the night Ted gets a call that one of the men claiming Starman killed him actually was killed by Starman in the time since! When Starman arrives at the scene to investigate, he falls prey to a hypnotic lamp, and is ordered by a masked villain to kill one of the other men. Obeying this "Veil", Starman flies off and catches him as he tries to escape by flying away in a plane. Seeing the spinning propeller breaks the hypnotic spell over the hero's mind before he can carry out the killing.

The other men who jokingly claimed to be victims of Starman's depredations have their lives threatened in the same ways they mentioned. It's actually the work of the Veil, who's unmasked as club member Vardon. He'd been embezzling from the bank all of them managed, and was arranging the others' deaths before they figured out who'd been stealing.

Appearing in Starman: "The Strange Case of the Luckless Liars"

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  • Veil (Single appearance)

Other Characters:

  • Cliff Henry (Single appearance)
  • Carver (Single appearance)
  • Everts (Single appearance)

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Synopsis for Manhunter: "Beware of Mr. Meek!"


Appearing in Manhunter: "Beware of Mr. Meek!"

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Antagonists:

  • Myron Meek (Single appearance; dies)
  • James (Single appearance)
  • Hogan (Single appearance)
  • Dike (Single appearance)
  • Barker (Single appearance)

Other Characters:

  • Panama Parker (Single appearance)
  • Hector Crawford (Single appearance; dies)

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Synopsis for Steve Conrad: "Tarsi the Tiger Boy Returns"


Appearing in Steve Conrad: "Tarsi the Tiger Boy Returns"

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Supporting Characters:

  • Chang

Other Characters:

  • Tarsi
  • Colonel Bentley
  • Jane Bentley

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Synopsis for Shining Knight: "The Wrecker"


Appearing in Shining Knight: "The Wrecker"

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  • Wrecker (Single appearance)
  • Butch (Single appearance)
  • Slim (Single appearance)

Other Characters:

  • Elsie (Single appearance)
  • Mr. Simmers (Single appearance)
  • Mr. Soames (Single appearance)

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Synopsis for Hourman: "Mystery of the Missing Link!!"


Appearing in Hourman: "Mystery of the Missing Link!!"

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Antagonists:

  • Brick Barton (Single appearance)
  • Dopey Dann (Single appearance)

Other Characters:

  • Mrs. Thompkins (Single appearance)
  • Ed Tompkins (Single appearance)

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Synopsis for Sandman: "The Villain from Valhalla!"

One night in New York City, a Viking longship glides into a docking slip and ties up. A barbaric, red-bearded, giant figure emerges and stalks down the pier. When accosted by a police watchman, the murderous giant smashes his skull with a large heavy hammer. He strolls down Broadway, finds a bank, and smashes his way into it with his extremely powerful electrical hammer, then begins to loot it. More police arrive, shooting ensues, bullets bounce right off of this brute! On his way out of town he destroys a police car, by flinging his hammer straight through it, then he boards his longship and sails away, laughing uproariously.

That evening the Sandman and Sandy take to the rooftops to travel undetected to the waterfront. Thor has already returned, and is easily winning a melee against a squad of cops. He's throwing them around one-handed, when Sandman charges into him! "Thor" is knocked down, but the Sandman has knocked himself out! Sandy charges in and is taken out with one kick.

Minutes later the Sandman regains consciousness, but Sandy is still out. Ambulances arrive and carry Sandy, and a number of policemen, to City Hospital. Plenty of able-bodied cops are now on the scene, and Sandman rallies them up to immediately pursue this Norseman and his raiders, no heavier weapons, no reinforcements, no nothing, let's go. They go!

Casting off and setting sail in his longship, the giant divests himself of his effective but very uncomfortable, transparent, bulletproof suit, and his crew has already done the same. This turns out to be premature, as Sandman leads a charge of cops down the pier. The fake vikings pick up their weapons and pile over the side to fight the cops on the pier. A fleet of police motorcycles and riot cars sweeps onto the scene, and a desperate battle is waged on the piers of New York City! At the center of it, the Sandman punches the daylights out of the fake thunder god, then drags him out of the melee by his ankles. The arresting officers identify "Thor" as Fairy-Tales Fenton, a metallurgist turned criminal. Fenton spends the next few months in a hospital bed with his limbs in traction.

Appearing in Sandman: "The Villain from Valhalla!"

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  • Thor (First appearance)

Other Characters:

  • Pier Watchman (Dies)
  • Chief Haines (Single appearance)

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