Comic Title: Strange Adventures #162
Publisher: DC (National Periodical Publications, Inc.)
Address: 575 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: March 1964
On Sale Date: January 30, 1964 Newsstand Date January 30, 1964
Source: House Ad, Flash #143, Page 29

Copyright Date January 30, 1964
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1964


Newsstand Date January 30, 1964
Source: Newsdealer Magazine, V19 #1

Frequency: Monthly
Cover Price: $0.12
Page Count: 32
Editor: Julius Schwartz

Title: "The Case of the 14 Clueless Crimes"
Pages: 8

Feature(s):
Star Hawkins

Writer: France E. Herron
Penciller: Mike Sekowsky
Inker: Bernard Sachs

Feature Character(s)

• Star Hawkins (last appearance in Strange Adventures #158; next appearance in Strange Adventures #173)

Supporting Character(s)

• Ilda (last appearance in Strange Adventures #158; next appearance in Strange Adventures #173)

Villain(s)

• An unnamed jewel thief (no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Star Hawkins is invited to lecture for a group of law-enforcement officers. During the lecture, Star claims that human detection more important than using machines for detective work. To prove his claim, he offers to catch a jewel thief that has left no clues during his 14 robberies.

Star takes a job at a jewelry store and watches the customers. That night, Ilda begins dancing crazily. When she stops, Star notices that one of the jewel is gone. Star remembers that a customer examined the jewel earlier in the day using only his right hand.

The next day, when another customer uses only his right hand to examine a jewel, Star follows him. The man is the thief, having coated the jewels with a substance on his right hand. Later, radiation causes the object coated with the substance to be teleported away. That radiation also caused Ilda to dance. Star apprehends the thief and receives a reward.