Comic Title: Adventure Comics #68
Publisher: DC (Detective Comics, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: November 1941
On Sale Date: October 1, 1941 Newsstand Date October 1, 1941
Source: House Ad, Action Comics #42, Page 53

Copyright Date September 30, 1941
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1941
Until 1958 DC did not report actual on sale dates to the copyright office
The publication dates listed in LoC records are NOT release dates.

Frequency: Monthly
Cover Price: $0.10
Page Count: 64
Editor: Murray Boltinoff

Title: (Death at the Opera)
Pages: 8

Feature(s):
Hourman (of Earth-2)

Artist: Bernard Baily

Feature Character(s)

• Hourman (last appearance in Adventure Comics #67; next appearance in Adventure Comics #69)

Villain(s)

• The Mask (Frenessi; a conductor; dies in this story; no further appearances)
• Tony Fabbio (a henchman; dies in this story; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Regina Bannerman (last appearance in Adventure Comics #53; no further appearances)
• Ravel (a conductor; dies in this story; no further appearances)
• An unnamed electrician (no further appearances)

Comments:
This story was not originally titled.

Synopsis:
Rex Tyler attends the opera with Regina Bannerman. Ravel, the new conductor, is electrocuted during the performance. A man calling himself the Mask takes credit for the murder. The theatre is cleared by police, but Rex returns as the Hourman. He questions an electrician and learns that Tony Fabbio is involved.

Hourman tracks down Fabbio, but not before the Mask murders him too. He then learns that the Mask plans to go after Regina. The Hourman saves his boss's niece from the villain, who then kills himself rather than be taken alive. The Mask is then revealed as Frenessi, a former conductor who was replaced by Ravel.