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CGC records 20 graded copies for Adventure Comics #81 (1942). Population is the number recorded by this grading source, not the total print run or all surviving copies.
Sandman and Sandy: "A Drama in Dreams"
Sandy Hawkins) spots some clues, develops a suspicion, and deduces that Wes Dodds) has been replaced by an imposter, called only "Actor," one who is himself haunted by The Sandman in his dreams. He follows the imposter (first in a car trunk, then on a rear bumper) to a hideaway, at an old abandoned mine in the hills, (the "Ghost Mine") where he finds the real Dodds tied up by kidnappers. Sandy changes clothes and bursts into their shack, but gets captured as well. The bad guys drop Wes and Sandy down a mine shaft into fifty feet of water, but working together, both escape from the crooks, plus under his clothes Wes has on his action suit, WITH a wirepoon gun. Sandman then breaks into his own penthouse apartment and nabs Actor, taking his place, to expose the crooks' scheme.
Creative credits
Writers: Gardner Fox, Alfred Bester, Alfred Bester, Jack Kirby
Interior art: Mort Meskin, Stan Kaye, Louis Cazeneuve, Pierce Rice, Bernard Baily, Jack Kirby
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GCD: 2593