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Independent·Adventure Comics·#66·Golden Age·ID-2314678
| Grade | Census & Float Distribution | Copies / Slabs | Role | FMV | Sales | Total Value | Multiple |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9.8 | 0 slabs | 0 | — | — | — | — | |
| 9.6 | 0 slabs | 0 | — | — | — | — | |
| 9.4 | 2 of 53 slabs (3.8%) | 2 | SOV | $12,846.26 | 2 | $25,693 | (16.3x) |
| 9.2 | 0 slabs | 0 | — | — | — | — | |
| 9.0 | 2 of 53 slabs (3.8%) | 2 | — | — | — | (3.8%) | |
| 4.0 | 9 of 53 slabs (17.0%) | 9 | ANC | $1,139.85 | 9 | $10,259 | (1.4x) |
| RAW | Raw Uncertified Copies | — | RAW | $790.53 | — | — | (1.0x Base) |
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Gardner Fox
Jack Burnley
Jack Burnley
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The birth of superheroes. Superman, Batman, Captain America, and Wonder Woman debut. Comics became a mass medium.
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Using forbidden voodoo formulas combined with the properties of photo-electric cells, thin young photographer Cuthbert Cain steals the souls of men, giving him power over their wills. When he snaps a shot he says "THYL'TH NY'A'A!" He can summon an ensorceled servant by speaking to his photo, or he can kill one by willing them to die as he snaps their shot. Using a photo of Woodley Allen, Cain keeps the FBI from involving itself in his crimes. Starman is asked to help, and he arrives to prevent Cain from robbing the U.S. Mint. Cain takes Starman's picture, apparently putting the hero under his control. Starman merely feigns submission, as the Gravity Rod cancelled the effect of the camera, by acting on the silver nitrate in the film. Starman is taken back to Cain's hideout, where he then forces the man to fix up an antidote to free his captives. Flinging a bowlful of special photographic acid at Starman is no use, the rays of the Gravity Rod cause the acid to explode harmlessly in mid-air. Magnetic rays from the Gravity Rod lift the villain into the air. The rod repels bullets, and pulls a gun from a man's hand. Cuthbert Cain, aka The Camera Eye resists, trying to use the camera on Starman when he drops his rod, but Starman slaps the camera in a neat mid-air 180-degree spin, and snaps Cain's own picture. Cain turns into a living negative sketched in white against the blackness, then vanishes completely. This jibes with Starman's own reading (from the five minutes he spent in Cain's occult library), that the user of these powers who allows his own picture to be taken disappears. Cuthbert Cain's disappearance restores all of his victims to normal.
Strict algorithmic segregation separating clean single-issue Cover A sales from multi-issue lot bundles, retailer exclusives, and foreign variants.
Starman must face a man who uses a forbidden voodoo formula, combined with the properties of photo-electric cells, to capture the souls of men and control the will of anyone whose image he captures in his camera!
Hourman and the Minute Men of America must deal with ruthless racketeers in a crime-ridden town who are extorting the poor.
The ad promotes 31 stations in the United States airing the Superman radio show, along with their sponsors. It also mentions there are 25 stations in Canada sponsored by Ogilvie Flour Mills Co., Ltd.
As Dian is returning home, her train is suddenly derailed and drawn toward a weird ball-tank object, whose comet-ray is violently drawing all the gold aboard the train to it. When Sandman investigates, he finds the scientist behind it, and learns that this object draws its amazing power from the the tail of a comet, power which also enables the mad scientist to become young again!
“I feel the eternal sleep of death coming over me. It is most terrible to die when I am young -- when I have so much still to do!”
Using forbidden voodoo formulas combined with the properties of photo-electric cells, thin young photographer Cuthbert Cain steals the souls of men, giving him power over their wills. When he snaps a shot he says "THYL'TH NY'A'A!" He can summon an ensorceled servant by speaking to his photo, or he can kill one by willing them to die as he snaps their shot. Using a photo of Woodley Allen, Cain keeps the FBI from involving itself in his crimes.
Starman is asked to help, and he arrives to prevent Cain from robbing the U.S. Mint. Cain takes Starman's picture, apparently putting the hero under his control. Starman merely feigns submission, as the Gravity Rod cancelled the effect of the camera, by acting on the silver nitrate in the film. Starman is taken back to Cain's hideout, where he then forces the man to fix up an antidote to free his captives. Flinging a bowlful of special photographic acid at Starman is no use, the rays of the Gravity Rod cause the acid to explode harmlessly in mid-air. Magnetic rays from the Gravity Rod lift the villain into the air. The rod repels bullets, and pulls a gun from a man's hand.
Cuthbert Cain, aka The Camera Eye resists, trying to use the camera on Starman when he drops his rod, but Starman slaps the camera in a neat mid-air 180-degree spin, and snaps Cain's own picture. Cain turns into a living negative sketched in white against the blackness, then vanishes completely. This jibes with Starman's own reading (from the five minutes he spent in Cain's occult library), that the user of these powers who allows his own picture to be taken disappears. Cuthbert Cain's disappearance restores all of his victims to normal.
Published by Detective Comics, Inc. Sandman: Edgar Edley's "Cometiray" device could harness the power of comets to (a) propel and maneuver an enormous spherical airship, (b) create powerful magnetic forces for manipulating masses of metal, or repelling live attackers, (c) restore his own youth. Edley's equipment is turned over to the State Police, for the U.S. Air Force. There is however no record of this technology being used in the following World War II. First issue for The Shining Knight. In the 1st panel of the 8th page, the caption calls Moresby's vehicle a truck, but the art shows an open-top car. The city in which most of this story takes place is not named in this story. It would later be identified as New York City. This series ran in Adventure Comics until issue #166, July 1951. Starman:* "The Case of the Camera Curse" is reprinted in The Golden Age Starman Archives Vol. 1 (Collected) and in 100-Page Super Spectacular #20.