Comic Title: Adventure Comics #74
Publisher: DC (Detective Comics, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: May 1942
Approx. On Sale Date: March 27, 1942 Copyright Date March 24, 1942
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1942
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: "The Case of the Monstrous Animal-Men"
Pages: 11

Feature(s):
Starman (Ted Knight of Earth-2)

Writer: Gardner F. Fox
Artist: Jack Burnley

Reprinted In:
Golden Age Starman Archives Vol. 1 HC (2000)

Feature Character(s)

• Starman (last appearance in Adventure Comics #73; next appearance in Adventure Comics #75)

Supporting Character(s)

• Doris Lee (last appearance in Adventure Comics #73; next appearance in Adventure Comics #76)
• Woodley Allen (last appearance in Adventure Comics #73; next appearance in Adventure Comics #76)

Villain(s)

• Klaw (a cat burglar; no further appearances)
• Ivan Caroff (a criminal scientist; dies in this story; no further appearances)
• Two guards (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• A bank guard (dies in this story; no further appearances)
• Carl Carey (a research scientist; no further appearances)
• Paul Duval (an actor; no further appearances)
• An unnamed actress and a movie director (no further appearances)

Synopsis:
A bank is robbed by a man with a panther head. Starman is called to solve the crime. He finds another man with a wolf head working as an actor. He follows the man back to the lab of Carl Carey, where Carey’s assistant Ivan Caroff is transforming men into animal forms.

Starman tries to intervene, but he is knocked out by an electrical charge. Caroff transforms him into a lion, and when Starman revives he again battles Caroff and the panther-man, Klaw. Starman’s gravity rod is able to restore his true appearance and defeat the crooks. Caroff is a victim of his own device, transformed into a hog and killed by the transformation machine.