Golden Age Starman Archives HC Vol 2 Mid Grade (2009)

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• 1 Finder's Keepers! Script: Gardner Fox +
  The Mist engages in a campaign using valuable items that people find on the street to hypnotize the finder, and later perpetrating thefts from those individuals.
• 2 The Little Man Who Wasn't There! Script: Alfred Bester +
  Starman and Mike Muggins look into a case where people stage an act, pretending to be attacked by "the little man who wasn't there", and robbed of valuable gems, only to be discovered in the end as perpetrating the act themselves!
• 3 The Tune of Terrific Toby Script: Alfred Bester +
  When Toby Weems stages a phony rescue of his office staff from a so-called bomb, he becomes a hero, which has some advantages with scaring underworld hoods. But his ego begins bothering him, so he seeks out Starman to help make him a real hero!
• 4 The Time-Machine Crime! Script: Alfred Bester +
  A gang uses a professor's time machine to travel into the past and bring William Shakespeare into the present, and use his ideas to commit crimes.
• 5 Starman's Lucky Star! Script: Gardner Fox +
  A blind young astronomer is mistakenly kidnapped and held for ransom, but when Starman arrives on the scene to round up the felons, a stray bullet brings sight back to the lad.
• 6 Hitch a Wagon to the Stars Script: Gardner Fox +
  Young Jim Hart, a failure in life because he believes in astrology, invents a submarine detector that Starman uses to capture enemy forces and the man who once convinced Hart to follow astrological signs.
• 7 Wish Upon a Star! Script: Gardner Fox +
  Against all odds, Starman helps make the wishes of three young boys at the Perry Preparatory School come true.
• 8 The Doom from the Skies Script: Gardner Fox +
  Starman's gravity rod is stolen from his wall safe and used by criminals to create a green death ray, a ray that strikes the Astral Avenger, resulting in a loss of memory.
• 9 The Constellations of Crime! Script: Gardner Fox +
  Starman faces the threat of a cunning astrologist whose gang commits their crimes under various signs of the zodiac.
• 10 The Moonman's Muggs! Script: Gardner Fox +
  After losing all his money trying to break land speed records, Dennis Towns decides to fly off into space and to the Moon as a blind to cover for a series of robberies on Earth.
• 11 Crime Paints a Picture! Script: Gardner Fox +
  Starman begins to wonder why an art studio hires the worst artist ever, who then proceeds to make sales of his paintings. Then the Astral Avenger discovers why: stolen jewels are hidden within the paintings!
• 12 The Enigma of the Vanishing House! Script: Gardner Fox +
  Starman aids the FBI in discovering the purpose of a pipe used by the Germans to refuel enemy submarines off the coast.
• 13 The Plundering Planets! Script: Gardner Fox +
  Escaping from prison, the Sun, Moon and Saturn make off with the Green Star, a very valuable emerald owned by John Wilcox. However, when Wilcox's children take off after the criminals, Starman loses no time in tracking all of them down: to recover the gem and save the criminals from the kids!
• 14 Land Beneath the Fog! Pencils: Mort Meskin +
  Starman enters into a land beneath the fog where a young girl is being held prisoner, and soon to be burnt at the stake, for being a witch.
• 15 The Rising Star of Johnny Teach! Script: Don C. Cameron +
  From the moment he was born, Johnny Teach was told he had been born under an unlucky star, and things happening in life seemed to prove it. But when Johnny teams up with the Starman, the Astral Avenger proves to Johnny that stars have nothing to do with success.
• 16 The Three Comets! Script: Joe Samachson +
  Starman suspects three famed circus acrobats of the theft of some sapphires, but is puzzled how they knew who the person was who was carrying them.
• 17 Gifts from the Stars! Script: Joe Samachson +
  Dr. Faraday, denied funds for very expensive astronomy equipment by Hubert Marsden, decides to use methods developed by astronomy to open the supposed burglar-proof safe of Marsden to convince him that he is warranted the money.
• 18 Stars Fall on Allie Bammer! Script: Joe Samachson +
  Blackie Kohl uses a meteor shower to concoct a gimmick of getting his boys into the Allie Bammer estate to rob to their hearts content, but the Astral Avenger makes them see stars in the end.
• 19 The Professor Plays Safe! Script: Joe Samachson +
  Professor Barnes is on his way to the annual Astronomer's Convention, but accidentally attends the Eastern Banker's Convention and is locked in a supposed burglar-proof safe. When Barnes fails to show up at the Astronomer's Convention, Ted Knight switches to Starman to look for the missing professor.
• 20 Prediction for Plunder! Script: Joe Samachson +
  The editor of the "Weekly Horoscope" is visited by Ted Knight and a gang of criminals: Knight upset because a friend of his was worried sick by a prediction made, the crooks upset by the fact that predictions that were made didn't come true.
• 21 Stolen Glory! Script: Joe Samachson +
  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.
• 22 Twin Stars of Crime! Script: Joe Samachson +
  Starman discovers that one gang, which has been commiting jewel robberies, is planting evidence that incriminates another gang.
• 23 My Fortune for a Star! Script: Joe Samachson +
  Starman becomes involved in a situation where a man discovers a new star, and that man, needing a great amount of money, is willing to let the top bidder have the honor of having that star named for him!
• 24 Life and Death of a Star! Script: Joe Samachson +
  The "discovery" of a new star by a friend of Ted Knight leads Starman to discover that this star is actually an ordinary electric light bulb suspended in the air by a balloon filled with light gas! And it's being used to send information to Puggy Randall's old pals in the state prison in regards to a break-out.
• 25 The Sun-Spot Scoundrel! Script: Joe Samachson +
  Starman confronts a professor who believes that sun-spot activity causes crime waves...and may even affect the Astral Avenger's famed Gravity Rod.
• 26 The Meteor Mob! Script: Joe Samachson +
  The Stellar Crime-Crusher faces a gang of crooks who use man-made meteors to conveniently land on a bank or jewelry store, making it easy pickings for them.

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