Adventure Comics #48 Origin of the Hourman
Cover Date: March, 1940
The Origin of "Tick-Tock" Tyler The Hourman Chemist Rex "Tick-Tock" Tyler places an advertisement in the local newspaper, offering aid to the downtrodden. Tyler decides to answer the letter from Mary Kenton, whose husband has fallen in with a gang of th ...
Issue Description
The Origin of "Tick-Tock" Tyler The Hourman
Chemist Rex "Tick-Tock" Tyler places an advertisement in the local newspaper, offering aid to the downtrodden. Tyler decides to answer the letter from Mary Kenton, whose husband has fallen in with a gang of thieves. Tyler, as the Hourman, stakes out the Beaux Arts Ball. Kenton's husband finds a note, from the Hourman, advising him to give up this life of crime. Under cover of darkness, the thieves steal a string of pearls.
The Hourman swallows a miraclo capsule, activation his super-human powers, for the next sixty minutes. The Hourman pursues the thieves back to their hidden lair. The Hourman subdues the thieves with tear gas, then takes Kenton's husband up to the roof. The Hourman throws Kenton's husband off the roof, then leaps after him, catching him before he hits the ground. Kenton's husband agrees to go back to his wife, and abandon his life of crime.
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Adventure Comics
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Volume Description
Adventure Comics (Volume 1)
Issues 12-31 are indexed in New Adventure Comics. The series was relaunched decades after its conclusion, with Adventure Comics a series featuring the age-old technique of dual-numbering so that although it began it's own numbering of the series, it also displays the numbering on the cover as if the series were still ongoing from this series started back in '35.
Issues #48-52 are collected in JSA All Stars Archives Vol. 1Issues #103-121 (Plus More Fun Comics #101-107) collected in The Adventures of Superboy Vol. 1Issues #260-280, 282 are collected in Aquaman Archives Vol. 1Issues #306-317 are collected in Legion of Super-Heroes Archives Vol. 2Issues #318-328 are collected in Legion of Super-Heroes Archives Vol. 3Issues #329-339 are collected in Legion of Super-Heroes Archives Vol. 4Issues #340-349 are collected in Legion of Super-Heroes Archives Vol. 5Issues #350-358 are collected in Legion of Super-Heroes Archives Vol. 6Issues #359-367 are collected in Legion of Super-Heroes Archives Vol. 7Issues #368-376 are collected in Legion of Super-Heroes Archives Vol. 8Issues #377-380 are collected in Legion of Super-Heroes Archives Vol. 9Issues #435-437, 441-466 are collected in Aquaman: Death of a PrincePlease first Sign In before leaving a review.
