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Adventure Comics 65

ADVENTURE COMICS #65

Cover Date: August 1941
Cover Price: $.10

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Cover Credits:
Art: Jack Burnley


Story: "The Mystery of the Undersea Terror!" (9 Pages)

Credits:

ArtJack Burnley
LetteringBetty Burnley
ColorsRaymond Perry
Associate editingMort Weisinger, Jack Schiff
EditingWhitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

Starman

Supporting Character(s):

Doris Lee
Woodley Allen

Villain(s):

Light (head of the League of the Octopus, a supply ship raiding gang of pirates; in between issues #62 and #71)

Location(s):

Atlantic Ocean

Story Reprinted in:

Golden Age Starman Archives #1 (2000)


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Second Story: [No Title] (4 Pages)

Credits:

StoryJerry Siegel
ArtChad Grothkopf
LetteringChad Grothkopf
Associate editingMort Weisinger, Jack Schiff
EditingWhitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

Steve Carson

Villain(s):

counterfeiters (first appearance for all)

Comment(s):

Chad Grothkopf credited as Chad


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Third Story: "The Little Men Who Weren't There" (8 Pages)

Credits:

ArtBernard Baily
LetteringBernard Baily
Associate editingMort Weisinger, Jack Schiff
EditingWhitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

Hourman (Rex Tyler; next in All-Star Comics #6)

Supporting Character(s):

Alexander Bannermain (in between issues #63 and #70)

Villain(s):

Doctor Darrk (first appearance; creates Giganto, a large robot and uses a "black light" ray to turn things invisible)

Comment(s):

Darrk's "black light" ray is similar to the one used by Phantom Lady


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Fourth Story: [No title] (6 Pages)

Credits:

StoryEd Moore
ArtEd Moore
LetteringEd Moore
Associate editingMort Weisinger, Jack Schiff
EditingWhitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

Paul Kirk

Supporting Character(s):

Chief Tim Horton

Villain(s):

Cardboard (first appearance; a criminal trying to escape from custody)
A crazed elderly inventor (first appearance)

Location(s):

Georgia

Comment(s):

This Paul Kirk is not known to be related to the mystery man Paul Kirk, the Manhunter


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Fifth Story: [No Title] (6 Pages)

Credits:

StoryGardner Fox
ArtJack Lehti
Associate editingMort Weisinger, Jack Schiff
EditingWhitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

Cotton Carver

Villain(s):

Tanga (first appearance; a kidnapper and raider)


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Sixth Story: [No Title] (8 Pages)

Credits:

ArtPaul Norris
Associate editingMort Weisinger, Jack Schiff
EditingWhitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

Sandman (next in All-Star Comics #6)

Supporting Character(s):

Dian Belmont

Villain(s):

spies (first appearance for all)

Other Character(s):

Elbert Hudson and his son (first appearance for both)

Story Reprinted in:

100-Page Super-Spectacular #DC-17


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