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CATALOG RECORD

Adventure Comics #58

DC · Series began 1938 · January 1941

WHY COLLECTORS WANT IT

  • Paul Kirk (Manhunter (private detective)) — not the same Manhunter who begins in issue #73, introduction

Dates

Cover date
January 1941
On sale
December 4, 1940
Pages
68

Editions and covers (2)

Copies of #58 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.

  • Canadian price edition

    Without Canadian Price

    Printed cover price 10¢.

    Source ↗
  • Canadian price edition

    With Canadian Price

    Printed cover price 10¢.

    This edition’s page

Creators

pencils: Bernard Baily, Ed Winiarski, Henry Boltinoff, Lou Paige, Howard Purcell, Chad Grothkopf, Jack Lehti, Ed Moore, Fred Ray, Ray McGill, Creig Flessel, E. E. Hibbard, Fred Harmaninks: Bernard Baily, Ed Winiarski, Henry Boltinoff, Lou Paige, Howard Purcell, Chad Grothkopf, Jack Lehti, Ed Moore, Fred Ray, Ray McGill, E. E. Hibbard, Fred Harmanscript: Ken Fitch, Ed Winiarski, Henry Boltinoff, Lou Paige, Howard Purcell, Gardner Fox, Ed Moore, George Shute, Jack Lehti, Ray McGillletters: Bernard Baily, Lou Paige, Ray McGill, Chad Grothkopf

Stories

  • The Great Train Robbery · 8 pages

    The Hourman and the Minute Men tackle the strange facts surrounding a $10,000 train robbery, and discover that one of the train clerks in an inside man for gangster, Nick Remos.

  • Legion of the Masked · 6 pages
  • Kosta Strikes · 6 pages
  • In Emeralda · 6 pages
  • Manhunt on the Sun Limited · 6 pages
  • Sky Visitor · 1.1 pages
  • Mango's Murder · 6 pages
  • "Two Years Before the Mast" by Richard Henry Dana · 0.5 pages
  • Orchids of Doom · 10 pages

    The Sandman has to battle the effects of the deadly Orchid Aerides Farmerii, which can strip the human body of its flesh!

Characters

Wesley DoddsThe SandmanHourmanRex TylerSteve CarsonDian BelmontJimmy MartinSteve ConradThorndyke TompkinsChangPaul Kirk

Reprinted in

Golden Age Sandman Archives (2004)

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