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Publisher: DC

Title: Adventure Comics
Issue: 79
Page Count: 68
Publish Date: October 1942
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Adventure Comics #79
Owner: walclark

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Adventure Comics #79
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Story Title: Cobras of the Deep! - cover
Features:Manhunter
Pages:1
Letters:typeset
Genre:superhero
Characters:Manhunter [Paul Kirk]; Starman [Ted Knight] (inset)


Story Title: Editorial Advisory Board - promo (ad from the publisher)
Pages:0.33
Letters:typeset


Story Title: [ no title ] - text article
Features:Good Books Worth Reading
Pages:0.67
Letters:typeset


Story Title: The Tune of Terrific Toby - comic story
Pages:11
Genre:superhero
Characters:The Starman [Ted Knight]; Terrific Toby [Toby Weems]; the Soup-Gang [Nick Armstrong, Muley, Joey] (villains, introduction for all)
Synopsis:When Toby Weems stages a phony rescue of his office staff from a so-called bomb, he becomes a hero, which has some advantages with scaring underworld hoods. But his ego begins bothering him, so he seeks out Starman to help make him a real hero!


Story Title: The Stroke of Doom! - comic story
Features:Hourman and Thorndyke
Pages:8
Genre:superhero
Characters:The Hourman [Rex Tyler]; Thorndyke Tompkins; Hans (bell maker, death); Gun Gunther (villain); Prof. Pitts (villain); Piper (villain)
Synopsis:Hourman must battle the murderous plan of a criminal combine that uses the destructive tone of a specially constructed large bell...sounds which cause death, destruction and madness for miles while the perpetrators are protected from the pulsations by vibro-mitters.


Story Title: The Man from L. A. - text story
Pages:2
Letters:typeset


Story Title: [ no title ] - comic story
Pages:0.5
Genre:humor; military


Story Title: [ no title ] - promo (ad from the publisher)
Features:All-Star Comics; The Justice Society of America
Pages:0.5


Story Title: Energy to Get There! - advertisement
Features:Baby Ruth
Pages:1
Letters:typeset


Story Title: The Case of the Love-Sick Submarine! - comic story
Pages:8
Genre:teen
Characters:Genius Jones


Story Title: The Mystery of the Shining Knight's Rival - comic story
Pages:11
Genre:superhero
Characters:The Shining Knight [Sir Justin]


Story Title: [ no title ] - comic story
Features:Gertie
Pages:0.25
Genre:humor; children


Story Title: [ no title ] - advertisement
Pages:0.25


Story Title: [ no title ] - advertisement
Features:Prize Comics
Pages:0.5


Story Title: [ no title ] - cartoon
Features:Laffs
Pages:0.5
Genre:humor


Story Title: Biggest and Best! - promo (ad from the publisher)
Features:World's Finest Comics
Pages:0.5


Story Title: Manhunter Battles the Cobras of the Deep - comic story
Features:Manhunter
Pages:9
Genre:superhero
Characters:Manhunter [Paul Kirk]


Story Title: Footprints in the Sands of Time - comic story
Features:The Sandman
Pages:10
Genre:superhero
Characters:The Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; Sandy [Sandy Hawkins]; The Curio Man (villain); Ruffy (villain)
Synopsis:Sandman and Sandy track down the whereabouts of an hourglass, made in the days of the Greek Emperor, Michael Commenus [sic], onto which is engraved the lost formula for making water burn.


Story Title: Now on Sale - promo (ad from the publisher)
Pages:1


Story Title: [ no title ] - advertisement
Features:Muscle Power Co.
Pages:1
Letters:typeset


Story Title: [ no title ] - advertisement
Features:Webster's Comprehensive Encyclopedic Dictionary
Pages:1
Letters:typeset


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