Object label
DC Comics · Comics · Adventure Comics · 1940
Adventure Comics #49
Adventure Comics · 1940
A women seeks Hourman's help is locating her missing father.
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Adventure Comics #49 belongs to a comics graph built around publisher, series, issue number, characters, creators like Bart Tumey, Bernard Baily, and Bill Finger, and story context. The important part is not just the issue record, but how it connects into runs, appearances, and adjacent covers.
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Adventure Comics #49 is a comics collectible connected to DC Comics and Adventure Comics. Useful collector signals include release year 1940, issue #49, and artist context from Whitney Ellsworth, Jerry Siegel, and Bill Finger. Adventure Comics has 44 catalogued releases on GrailHub, making this page a route into completion, variants, and nearby objects.
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Collector notes
Adventure Comics #49 is a comics entry for issue #49 in Adventure Comics from 1940. GrailHub tracks publisher, series, issue number, cover date, creators, characters, and first appearances where that data is available.
DC Comics pages connect this issue back to its publisher, series, creators, and related issues. For comic collectors, those links matter because discovery often starts with a character, creative team, first appearance, or a run of issues rather than one isolated record.
Characters associated with this issue include Barry O'Neill, Hourman (Rex Tyler), Sandman (Dodds), and Steve Carson.
Series context
Adventure Comics
Adventure Comics groups related comics entries from DC Comics, so collectors can move from this object into nearby releases instead of treating it as a standalone record.
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- 44 objects
- Release span
- 1938-1967
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Quick facts
- Publisher
- DC Comics
- Series
- Adventure Comics
- Issue number
- #49
- Cover date
- Apr 1, 1940
- Characters
- Barry O'Neill, Hourman (Rex Tyler), Sandman (Dodds), Steve Carson
- Creators
- Bart Tumey, Bernard Baily, Bill Finger, Bob Kane, Chad Grothkopf, Creig Flessel +8 more
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- Sold out / retired
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Data source
- Source
- Metron
- Source ID
- 24368
- Source URL
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