Adventure Comics (Volume 1) with a cover date of October, 1942.
Synopsis for Starman: "The Tune of Terrific Toby"
Timid Toby Weems fakes a bomb scare at his office to make people respect him, and his fake heroic deed soon has people all over the city singing his praises, but his conscience gets the best of him (especially after his display caused a coworker to be blamed and arrested). He can't go on letting people think he's a hero unless he does something genuinely heroic, and decides to go out and get into trouble in the hopes Starman will show up and help him out in that regard. The criminals he tries to interact with stop what they're doing when they see the great hero Toby Weems, however, but on his second try the scheme ends up working out anyway because Starman was already flying after the fleeing felons.
Starman agrees, but insists they get Armstrong, Toby's arrested coworker, out of jail since he was wrongly fingered. While taking them both back to Toby's apartments, though, they find the notorious "Soup-Gang" already there waiting for them, and in the brawl they manage to get in a lucky blow and floor Starman. The head of the gang's informed the crooks of the truth about Toby and blackmails him into letting them into his office that night. Managing to escape from the closet and recover his Gravity Rod, Starman flies to the office and beats up the "Soup-Gang", but Toby finally finds his nerve as their boss shows up, and tackles him. Starman unmasks the boss as the arrested coworker, having deduced that he was the only person who could've known about Toby perpetrating a hoax, and then gone on to inform the "Soup-Gang" about it if he was the boss.
Appearing in Starman: "The Tune of Terrific Toby"
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- Toby Weems
Antagonists:
- The Soup-Gang (Single appearance)
- Nick Armstrong (Single appearance)
- Muley (Single appearance)
- Joey (Single appearance)
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Synopsis for Hourman: "The Stroke of Doom"
Appearing in Hourman: "The Stroke of Doom"
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Antagonists:
- Gun Gunther (Single appearance)
- Prof. Pitts (Single appearance)
- Piper (Single appearance)
Other Characters:
- Hans (Single appearance; dies)
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Synopsis for Genius Jones: "The Case of the Love-Sick Submarine"
Appearing in Genius Jones: "The Case of the Love-Sick Submarine"
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Supporting Characters:
- Mary Brown
Antagonists:
- Captain Ritter (Single appearance)
- Nazi Spies (Single appearance)
Other Characters:
- Old Hitler (Single appearance)
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Synopsis for Shining Knight: "The Mystery of the Shining Knight's Rival"
Appearing in Shining Knight: "The Mystery of the Shining Knight's Rival"
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Antagonists:
- Pinkey Michell (Single appearance)
Other Characters:
- Tracy Frazer
- Eve Barclay
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Synopsis for Manhunter: "Battles the Cobras of the Deep"
Appearing in Manhunter: "Battles the Cobras of the Deep"
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Antagonists:
- Doctor Heinnig (Single appearance)
- Bruno (Single appearance)
- Karl (Single appearance)
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Synopsis for Sandman: "Footprints in the Sands of Time"
Appearing in Sandman: "Footprints in the Sands of Time"
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- Curio Man (Single appearance)
- Ruffy (Single appearance)
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Notes
- "The Tune of Terrific Toby" is reprinted in The Golden Age Starman Archives Vol. 2.
- "Battles the Cobras of the Deep" is reprinted in Detective Comics #440.
- "Footprints in the Sands of Time" is reprinted in The Sandman by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby
Trivia
- In the Genius Jones story, Adolf Hitler appears as an old street beggar in the year 1992.
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