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Adventure Comics #80

DC · Series began 1938 · November 1942

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Dates

Cover date: November 1942
On sale: September 22, 1942
Pages: 68

Editions and covers

Original edition
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Creators

pencils: Jack Kirby, Henry Boltinoff, Jack Burnley, Mort Meskin, Louis Cazeneuve, Stan Kaye, Bernard Bailyscript: Jack Kirby, Henry Boltinoff, Alfred Bester, Sidney Elias, Bill Ayresletters: Howard Ferguson, Betty Bentley, Bernard Bailyinks: Henry Boltinoff, Jack Burnley, Ray Burnley, George Roussos, Louis Cazeneuve, Stan Kaye, Bernard Bailycolors: Raymond Perry

Stories

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The Man Who Couldn't Sleep! · 10 pages
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!
The Time-Machine Crime! · 11 pages
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.
Poland Lives On · 1 pages
Adventure of the Desperate Dragons · 11 pages
Coo-Coo · 0.44 pages
The Enigma of the Absent-Minded Artists! · 8 pages
Man Trap Island! · 9 pages
Good Old Joe · 2 pages
The Case of the Sponsored Crooks! · 8 pages
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.

Reprinted in

The Forever People (1971), Golden Age Starman Archives (2000), The Sandman by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby (2009)