Adventure Comics (1938 series) (DC) #255

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Number	255
Volume
No Volume	No
Display Volume With Number	No
Indicia Publisher
Indicia Publisher Not Printed	Printed
Brand
No Brand	No
Publication Date	December 1958
Key Date	1958-12-10
Year On Sale	None
Month On Sale	None
Day On Sale	None
On Sale Date Uncertain	No
Indicia Frequency
No Indicia Frequency	No
Price	0.10 USD
Page Count	36 (note: total sum of story page counts is 29.01)
Page Count Uncertain	No
Editing	Whitney Ellsworth (credited), Jack Schiff (Managing Editor), Mort Weisinger, (story editor), George Kashdan (story editor)
No Editing
Barcode
No Barcode	Yes
Notes
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Field	Added / Next
Sequence Number	1
Title	The Splitting of Superboy
Unofficial Title?	No
Type	comic story
Feature	Superboy
Genre	superhero
Job Number
Script	Otto Binder
No Script
Pencils	George Papp
No Pencils
Inks	George Papp
No Inks
Colors	?
No Colors
Letters	?
No Letters
Editing
No Editing	X
Page Count	12.67
Page Count Uncertain	No
Characters	2nd app Red Kryptonite, Ma and Pa Kent, Kozz of Mars (yellow skin), Superboy robots, kryptonite, Lana Lang
Synopsis	Kozz of Mars uses Red Kryptonite to split Superboy and Clark into two separate people. But Clark turns out to be evil.
Reprint Notes	in 80 Page Giant (DC, 1964 series) #10 (May 1965)
Notes	bottom of last page has Tootsie Roll ad
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Field	Added / Next
Sequence Number	4
Title	Sharing -- The United Nations Way!
Unofficial Title?	No
Type	public service announcement
Feature
Genre	psa
Job Number
Script	Jack Schiff
No Script
Pencils	George Roussos
No Pencils
Inks	George Roussos
No Inks
Colors	?
No Colors
Letters	Gaspar Saladino
No Letters
Editing	?
No Editing
Page Count	1
Page Count Uncertain	No
Characters
Synopsis
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Field	Added / Next
Sequence Number	5
Title	The War That Never Ended!
Unofficial Title?	No
Type	comic story
Feature	Green Arrow
Genre	superhero
Job Number
Script	Dave Wood
No Script
Pencils	Jack Kirby
No Pencils
Inks	Jack Kirby, Roz Kirby (backgrounds)
No Inks
Colors	?
No Colors
Letters	?
No Letters
Editing
No Editing	X
Page Count	5.67
Page Count Uncertain	No
Characters	Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]; Speedy [Roy Harper]; Major Tayako
Synopsis	Green Arrow and Speedy are stranded on a Pacific island that is still inhabited by Japanese soldiers who do not know that WWII is over.
Reprint Notes	in Green Arrow by Jack Kirby, The (DC, 2001 series) #[nn] in Showcase Presents Green Arrow (DC, 2006 series) #1
Notes	bottom of last page has Tootsie Pop ad
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Field	Added / Next
Sequence Number	7
Title	Aquaman's Double Trouble
Unofficial Title?	No
Type	comic story
Feature	Aquaman
Genre	superhero
Job Number
Script	?
No Script
Pencils	Ramona Fradon
No Pencils
Inks	Ramona Fradon
No Inks
Colors	?
No Colors
Letters	?
No Letters
Editing	?
No Editing
Page Count	5.67
Page Count Uncertain	No
Characters	King Neptune
Synopsis
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Notes	bottom of last page has Tootsie Roll contest ad
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Anonymous User	This change is a temporary migration representing the state of the database at the time of the new site deployment. It will be replaced by history assembled from our old database soon.		2010-11-20 09:40:21	Available	Approved

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