Comic Title: Adventure Comics #82
Publisher: DC (Detective Comics, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: January 1943
Approx. On Sale Date: November 25, 1942 Copyright Date November 21, 1942
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1943
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: Jack Schiff

Title: "Hitch a Wagon to the Stars"
Pages: 9

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

Penciller: Mort Meskin
Inker: George Roussos

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

Feature Character(s)

• Starman (last appearance in Adventure Comics #81; next appearance in Adventure Comics #83)

Supporting Character(s)

• Doris Lee (last appearance in Adventure Comics #81; next appearance in Adventure Comics #83)

Villain(s)

• Norwood (a Nazi agent; no further appearances)
• The crew of a German submarine (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Jim Hart and Isobelle Sandow (a scientist and his girlfriend; no further appearances)
• A fortune teller (no further appearances)

Synopsis:
After his life was saved by a fortune teller as a child, Jim Hart has obsessively followed his horoscope. He becomes a success at college, succeeding in athletics and as a physicist. Jim becomes a leader in the field of radio physics and works to develop a submarine detection device.

Jim's rival Norwood provokes Isobelle Sandow, Hart's fiancee, to move their marriage to an earlier date. Jim refuses because he thinks the stars are out of alignment. Isobelle becomes angry and throws her engagement ring at Jim. It lands on his submarine detection device, and the metal in the ring completes a circuit which enables the device to function.

Starman tries to convince Jim that his astrological beliefs are merely superstition. He then takes the plans for the sub detector to the Navy. Norwood returns to the lab and reveals himself as a Nazi agent. He and his men steal the device and kidnap Hart. Starman tracks them down and rescues Jim, who finally realizes that his belief in astrology was ridiculous.