Comic Title: Adventure Comics #80
Publisher: DC (Detective Comics, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: November 1942
Approx. On Sale Date: September 25, 1942 Copyright Date September 22, 1942
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1942
Until 1958 DC did not report actual on sale dates to the copyright office
The publication dates listed in LoC records are NOT release dates.

Frequency: Monthly
Cover Price: $0.10
Page Count: 64
Editor: Murray Boltinoff

Title: "The Time-Machine Crime"
Pages: 11

Feature(s):
Starman (Ted Knight of Earth-2)

Artist: Jack Burnley

Reprinted In:
Golden Age Starman Archives Vol. 2 HC (2009)

Feature Character(s)

• Starman (last appearance in Wonder Woman #232; next appearance in All-Star Comics #14)

Villain(s)

• Noggin, Statler, and Four-Eyes (crooks; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Will Shakespeare (no further appearances)
• An unnamed inventor (no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Three small-time crooks have captured Starman. They drive him to a nearby cave to kill him where there will be no witnesses. However, they are surprised to discover an elderly inventor living in the cave who has constructed a time machine. The crooks hijack the machine and leave Starman to die in an explosion.

The crooks use the time machine to retrieve William Shakespeare from the past. They believe he will be able to plan crimes for them. Shakespeare doesn't want to cooperate, so the crooks trick him into coming up with a plan.

When the crooks return to the present they discover that Starman has escaped the explosion and survived. The trio of crooks get away from him long enough to put Shakespeare's plan into action, but Starman eventually catches them. With the crooks incarcerated, Starman uses the time machine to return Shakespeare to his rightful place in history.