Comic Title: Adventure Comics #70
Publisher: DC (Detective Comics, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: January 1942
Approx. On Sale Date: November 28, 1941 Copyright Date November 25, 1941
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 Adventure of the Murderous Bookshop"
Pages: 8

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

Penciller: Paul Norris
Inker: Chad Grothkopf

Feature Character(s)

• Sandman (last appearance in Adventure Comics #69; next appearance in Adventure Comics #71)

Supporting Character(s)

• Sandy the Golden Boy (last appearance in Adventure Comics #69; next appearance in Adventure Comics #71)

Villain(s)

• Bookworm and his men (Butch named; Bookworm dies in this story; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Conners (a bookstore employee; dies in this story; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Sandman and Sandy stop the Bookworm from stealing a rare manuscript from a bookstore. Bookworm gets away, and Sandman learns later that Conners, a bookstore employee, has been killed later that evening.

Sandman returns to the bookstore the next evening, as does the Bookworm. Both search for the manuscript. One of Bookworm’s henchmen is shot by a trap gun. The gun was set up to protect the manuscript and also is responsible for killing Conners. Bookworm’s greed causes him to try and get the manuscript, but the gun kills him and burns the manuscript as well.