Adventure Comics #88 (1943) for Sale - Where to Buy

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	-	cover	1	pencils: Jack Kirby	The Sandman; Sandy; Starman (inset)
1	Editorial Advisory Board	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.33	letters: typeset
2	Lumberjack Bill	text article	0.67	script: Josette Frank
3	The Cruise of the Crescent	comic story	10	script: Jack Kirby; pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Joe Simon; letters: Howard Ferguson	The Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; Sandy [Sandy Hawkins]; Gramp; Jerry; Peg-Leg; Loggerhead (villain)
5	Death of Genius Jones	comic story	6	pencils: Stan Kaye; inks: Stan Kaye	Genius Jones
6	Prisoners of Peril!	comic story	8.67	pencils: Louis Cazeneuve; inks: Louis Cazeneuve	The Shining Knight [Sir Justin]
7	Leading Comics	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.33
8	The Enigma of the Vanishing House!	comic story	9	script: Gardner Fox; pencils: Emil Gershwin; inks: Emil Gershwin; letters: Howard Ferguson	Starman [Ted Knight]; Macklin; Hans (villain)
9	The Cuckoo	text story	2	script: Tom Arnold
10	Loaded for Bear!	comic story	9	pencils: Pierce Rice	Manhunter [Paul Kirk]
12	Bombs Over Brittany	comic story	8	script: Joe Samachson; pencils: Irving Tirman; inks: Irving Tirman	Mike Gibbs

Plus 5 pages of advertisements and other matter across 5 sequences, as published.

Collection	Year
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 ›

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