Adventure Comics #95
Adventure Comics #95
Cover Credits
Penciller: Jack Kirby

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Title: "The Professor Plays Safe"
Pages: 8

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

Writer: Joe Samachson
Artist: Emil Gershwin

Reprinted In:
Golden Age Starman Archives Vol. 2 HC (2009)

Feature Character(s)

Villain(s)

  • Terrible Toby and his gang (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

  • Professor Lathrop Q. Barnes (an astronomer; no further appearances)
  • Several bankers (no further appearances)
  • G. Granville Lathrop (the inventor of a safe; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Absent-minded professor Lathrop Barnes gets lost on the way to an astronomy convention. He wanders into a banker's convention and is mistaken for the inventor of a new safe. Barnes becomes trapped inside the safe which can't be opened.

Crooks then steal the safe from the convention. Starman pursues them. He locates them in a remote field where they intend to blow the safe open. Starman apprehends the crooks, then using his gravity rod he is able to free Barnes without injury.


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