Adventure Comics #97

In "No Curtains for Cupid!", the Eraser Kid schemes to pull former crook Harry Long back into crime, but he underestimates the unexpected help Harry finds in the Sandman and his young sidekick, Sandy. With the odds stacked against him, Harry’s new allies stand ready to protect him — and their city — from a villain who thinks he’s in control.

In "Barbs of Chivalry!" from Adventure Comics #97 (1945), the Shining Knight finds himself the unexpected center of a festival celebrating his legacy—only to face a cunning challenge from organized crime boss Archibald Dillon, who aims to undermine his reputation with a series of calculated provocations. The story unfolds at a grand gathering of honor and tradition, where every gesture and moment is scrutinized, testing the knight’s resolve in ways far removed from the battlefield.

Genius Jones takes on a puzzling case in "The Clue That Wasn't There!"—a seemingly impossible rail switch malfunction that sent a train car to the wrong side of the yard, despite the switch being set for the opposite direction. With logic as his only tool, he dives into the mystery, searching for the invisible clue that holds the answer.

In "Stolen Glory!" from Adventure Comics #97 (1945), brilliant astronomer Jimmy Wells faces a moral crossroads when wealthy patron Wesley Vanderloot offers to fund his dream of an observatory—on the condition that Vanderloot takes credit for all of Wells’s discoveries. When Starman, Ted Knight, starts uncovering the truth behind Vanderloot’s sudden scientific triumphs, the deception threatens to unravel everything, putting both men in grave danger.

In the quiet solitude of a Pacific island, ex-poet Tom Riley lives apart from the world—until the war comes knocking. When Japanese forces seize his island and turn it into a military base, he must confront the cost of his isolationism.