Adventure Comics #87 (1943) for Sale - Where to Buy

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	-	cover	1	pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Joe Simon	The Sandman; Sandy; Starman (inset)
1	Editorial Advisory Board	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.33	letters: typeset
2	When the Typhoon Blows	text article	0.67	script: Josette Frank
3	I Hated the Sandman!	comic story	10	script: Jack Kirby; pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Joe Simon; letters: Howard Ferguson	The Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; Sandy [Sandy Hawkins]; Silas Pettigrew; Mickey the Mope (villain); Tennessee Tommy (villain)
5	The West Goes Ghost!	comic story	6	pencils: Stan Kaye; inks: Stan Kaye	Genius Jones
6	-	promo (ad from the publisher)	1
7	The Troubles of a Taxidermist!	comic story	9	pencils: Louis Cazeneuve; inks: Louis Cazeneuve	The Shining Knight [Sir Justin]
8	Crime Paints a Picture!	comic story	9	script: Gardner Fox; pencils: Emil Gershwin; inks: Emil Gershwin	Starman [Ted Knight]; Doris Lee; Axel Elgren; Crabby Dan McGraw (villain)
9	Voice in the Night	text story	1	script: Norman Goss
10	The Man from Yesterday!	comic story	9	script: Jack Kirby; pencils: Pierce Rice; letters: Howard Ferguson	Manhunter [Paul Kirk]
11	Jack Potts	comic story	1
12	You Never Can Beat the Dutch!	comic story	8	script: Joe Samachson; pencils: Irving Tirman; inks: Irving Tirman	Mike Gibbs

Plus 4 pages of advertisements and other matter across 4 sequences, as published.

Collection	Year
World's Finest Comics #226	1974	On eBay ›
Golden Age Starman Archives #2 ISBN 978-1-4012-2283-3	2009	On eBay ›
The Sandman by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby #[nn] ISBN 978-1-4012-2299-4	2009	On eBay ›
Take That, Adolf!: The Fighting Comic Books of the Second World War #[nn] ISBN 978-1-60699-987-5	2017	On eBay ›

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