Cover: Jack Kirby & Pen Shumaker

Adventure Comics #97

Apr 1945 · DC · 0.10 USD

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“No Curtains for Cupid!”

In "No Curtains for Cupid!", brilliant astronomer Jimmy Wells faces a moral dilemma when wealthy patron Wesley Vanderloot offers to fund his dream observatory—on the condition that Vanderloot takes credit for all of Jimmy’s discoveries. As Ted Knight begins to question the sudden string of Vanderloot’s scientific triumphs, the truth threatens to unravel everything, putting both Jimmy and Starman in peril. Written by Joe Samachson and illustrated by Emil Gershwin, this 1945 adventure blends science and suspense with a cover by Jack Kirby and Pen Shumaker.

writer Joe Samachson · artist, inker Emil Gershwin · cover Jack Kirby, Pen Shumaker

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writer Joe Samachson

artist, inker Emil Gershwin

cover pencils Jack Kirby

cover inks Pen Shumaker

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Brilliant astronomer Jimmy Wells needs money to buy an observatory, and wealthy Wesley Vanderloot agrees to buy it for him providing Wells allows Vanderloot to take credit for all of Jimmy's discoveries. When Ted Knight begins to suspect the true reasons behind Vanderloot's success, it nearly costs Wells and Starman their lives.

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