Move over, Hourman and Sandman! There's a new hero in town and we're giving him the cover and the top story! Long before he fathered Jack, before he worked my Mary Tyler Moore, Ted Knight was STARMAN. Not quite a "science hero" like those of the Silver Age, his gravity rod calls on the "power of the stars" (sounds like astrology to me) and acts as a telekinesis wand. He would eventually join the Justice Society of America and make his home in Adventure Comics for the next six years (until issue #102), after which he was replaced by a little-known strip called Superboy.
For trivia buffs, the villain on the left end of the panel is Doctor Doog, who was almost called Doctor Doom, but I dunno, he thought Doog sounded better..? Victor saved himself the trouble of a lawsuit there.
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