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CATALOG RECORD

Adventure Comics #56

DC · Series began 1938 · November 1940

Dates

Cover date
November 1940
On sale
October 4, 1940
Pages
68

Editions and covers

Creators

pencils: Bernard Baily, Howard Purcell, Jack Burnley, Ed Winiarski, Fred Harman, Chad Grothkopf, George Papp, Jack Lehti, Stan Asch, Joe Sulman, Harold Sherman, Creig Flesselinks: Bernard Baily, Howard Purcell, Jack Burnley, Ed Winiarski, Fred Harman, Chad Grothkopf, George Papp, Jack Lehti, Stan Asch, Joe Sulman, Harold Shermanscript: Ken Fitch, Ed Winiarski, Howard Purcell, Jerry Siegel, George Papp, Gardner Fox, Stan Asch, Alan Sulman, Jack Lehti, Harold Shermanletters: Bernard Baily, Chad Grothkopf

Stories

  • Dr. Slight's Living Statues · 8 pages

    Rex Tyler, ordered by Mr. Bannerman to head out to "Castle Doom" to assist Dr. Slight in working out a special chemical formula, is unaware that this formula gives life to plaster casts by means of a special machine, which have been used to bomb places on the east coast.

  • Fang Gow's Ruse · 6 pages
  • "Ramona" by Mrs. Helen Jackson · 0.5 pages
  • Death Behind the Waves · 6 pages
  • At Grips with the Kraken · 5.9 pages
  • Bodyguard · 6 pages
  • Strange Trail · 1.67 pages
  • Shipwrecked · 6 pages
  • The Crook Who Knew the Sandman's Identity · 10 pages

    While out one evening, a gang of thugs enters and steals Dian's bracelet, and the Sandman heads out after them...a situation that leads to the eventual kidnapping of Wes Dodds!

Characters

Wesley DoddsThe SandmanHourmanRex TylerSteve CarsonDian BelmontThe ChiefSteve ConradJimmy MartinThorndyke TompkinsChang

Reprinted in

Golden Age Sandman Archives (2004)

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