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ADVENTURE COMICS #82
Cover Date: January 1943
Cover Price: $.10
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Cover Credits:
Pencils: Jack Kirby (signed)
Inks: Joe Simon (signed)
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Credits:
| Story | Jack Kirby, Joe Simon |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Joe Simon |
| Lettering | Howard Ferguson |
| Associate editing | Mort Weisinger, Jack Schiff |
| Editing | Whitney Ellsworth |
Feature Character(s):
- Sandman (last in All-Star Comics #14/Young All-Stars #27; next in Boy Commandos #1/3)
- Sandy, The Golden Boy (last in All-Star Comics #14/Young All-Stars #27)
Villain(s):
- Smoothie and his gang (first appearance for all; uses Santa impersonator to commit crimes)
Other Character(s):
- Man-Mountain Bearde (first appearance; an actor who poses as Santa Claus)
Location(s):
- Suicide Slum (Sandman, Sandy and Bearde distribute Christmas presents for the needy)
Comment(s):
- This story takes place before Christmas, 1942.
Story Reprinted in:
- Limited Collectors' Edition #C-43 (February-March 1976)
- A DC Universe Christmas (2000)
- The Sandman By Joe Simon & Jack Kirby (2009)
Credits:
| Story | Gardner Fox |
| Pencils | Mort Meskin |
| Inks | George Roussos |
| Associate editing | Mort Weisinger, Jack Schiff |
| Editing | Whitney Ellsworth |
Feature Character(s):
- Starman (last in Young All-Stars #27/All-Star Comics #14)
Supporting Character(s):
Villain(s):
- Norwood (first appearance; a Nazi sympathizer)
- German agents (first appearance for all)
Other Character(s):
- Jim Hart (first appearance; a young radio physicist who runs his life by astrology)
Comment(s):
- This story happens before July
Story Reprinted in:
- Golden Age Starman Archives #2 (2009)
Credits:
| Art | Louis Cazeneuve |
| Lettering | Louis Cazeneuve |
| Associate editing | Mort Weisinger, Jack Schiff |
| Editing | Whitney Ellsworth |
Feature Character(s):
- Shining Knight (last in DC Universe: Legacies #2/2; next in Leading Comics #5/Young All-Stars #27)
Supporting Character(s):
- Winged Victory
- Professor Moresby (next in Leading Comics #5)
Villain(s):
- Twisty McGraw and his gang (first appearance for all; gangsters who use Sylvus for their own gang)
Other Character(s):
- Sylvus (first appearance; a young apprentice to a sorcerer from the middle ages)
Location(s):
- New York City, NY
Comment(s):
- Sylvus changes a horse to a pegasus and Justin leaves it with a farmer.
Credits:
| Story | Alfred Bester |
| Art | Stan Kaye |
| Lettering | Stan Kaye |
| Associate editing | Mort Weisinger, Jack Schiff |
| Editing | Whitney Ellsworth |
Feature Character(s):
Supporting Character(s):
- Mary Brown
Villain(s):
- Von Swinesky (first appearance; a blackmailer)
Location(s):
- New York City, NY
Credits:
| Pencils | Pierce Rice |
| Associate editing | Mort Weisinger, Jack Schiff |
| Editing | Whitney Ellsworth |
Feature Character(s):
Villain(s):
- Claude Ransell (first appearance; a zoo keeper who kills animals to divert attention from a radium mine; dies)
Location(s):
- New York City, NY
Credits:
| Story | Alfred Bester |
| Art | Bernard Baily |
| Lettering | Bernard Baily |
| Associate editing | Mort Weisinger, Jack Schiff |
| Editing | Whitney Ellsworth |
Feature Character(s):
- Hourman (Rex Tyler; uses Miraclo Ray)
Supporting Character(s):
- Thorndyke (wears a cape a mask and an Hourglass in this story)