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Adventure Comics 57

ADVENTURE COMICS #57

Cover Date: December 1940
Cover Price: $.10

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Cover Credits:
Art: Bernard Baily (signed)


Story: [No Title] (8 Pages)

Credits:

StoryKen Fitch
ArtBernard Baily
LetteringBernard Baily
EditingWhitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

Hourman (Rex Tyler)

Supporting Character(s):

Minute-Man Martin
Thorndyke

Villain(s):

Doctor Togg (first appearance; creates hybrid monsters to do his bidding; next in flashback in Hourman #5)
Wolf-Buzzards (first appearance; hybrid monsters used by Dr. Togg as watchdogs; all destroyed)
Gombezi (first appearance; hybrid monsters used by Dr. Togg to carry out robberies of monies and equipment; all destroyed)


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Second Story: [No Title] (6 Pages)

Credits:

StoryHoward Purcell
ArtHoward Purcell
LetteringHoward Purcell
EditingWhitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

Mark Lansing

Supporting Character(s):

Kit and Tony (behind the scenes)
King Talon

Villain(s):

Mokan, the Monster (behind the scenes)
Costa (first appearance; a spy for Mokan among Talon's officers; uses the call sign X-7)

Location(s):

Mikishawm

Comment(s):

Continued from last issue and into next issue.
A week has passed between issues.


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Third Story: [No Title] (4 Pages)

Credits:

StoryJerry Siegel
ArtChad Grothkopf
LetteringChad Grothkopf
EditingWhitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

Steve Carson

Supporting Character(s):

Chief of the F.B.I.

Villain(s):

Aldo Serald (first appearance; a spy disguised as Cordial a newspaperman)

Location(s):

Washington, DC
California coast

Comment(s):

Chad Grothkopf credited as Chad


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Fourth Story: "Cotton Carver and the Tree Folk" (6 Pages)

Credits:

StoryGardner Fox
ArtJack Lehti
EditingWhitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

Cotton Carver

Supporting Character(s):

Deela

Villain(s):

King Treeda and the Tree Men (first appearance; a group of archers living in the treetops of large trees)

Comment(s):

This story continues directly from the last issue.


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Fifth Story: [No title] (10 Pages)

Credits:

StoryGardner Fox
PencilsCraig Flessel
InksChad Grothkopf
LetteringChad Grothkopf
EditingWhitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

Sandman (Wesley Dodds)

Villain(s):

An unnamed scientist and his assistant (first appearance for both; threatens to destroy Earth with a uranium beam)

Other Character(s):

Phoebe (first appearance; the unnamed scientist's niece)
Bill Williams (first appearance; a friend of Wes'; a newspaper reporter; dies)

Story Reprinted in:

Golden Age Sandman Archives #1 (2004)

Solicitation:


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