Adventure Comics #197

(February 1954)

Can You Draw Me? (Table of Contents: 1) (Expand) /

Art Instruction, Inc. / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Clark Kent -- Toughie! (Table of Contents: 2)

Superboy / comic story / 12 pages (report information)

Script

Bill Woolfolk

Pencils

Curt Swan

Inks

Sy Barry

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Superboy

Synopsis

Clark Kent turns bad, shooting spitballs and mouthing off. He's asked to join the Skull and Crossbones Gang, and (barely) passes the initiation. (These "gangs" are boys on tricked-out bicycles.) Their enemies are the Red Dragons, and both pull pranks. Clark/Superboy gently steers them by making a statue talk, inadvertently helping an old woman and her shoe store, then sends them carrying water on their bikes to battle a raging wildfire. Both gangs get awards, and will now compete to out-good-deed each other! And Clark is thanked by the principal for his undercover operation.

Keywords

JDs; Juvenile delinquency; juvenile delinquents

Indexer Notes

Woolfolk credit by Martin O'Hearn at http://martinohearn.blogspot.com/. Inker credit by Bob Hughes.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3) (Expand) /

Fleer's Dubble Bubble Gum / advertisement / 0.5 page (report information)

Editorial Advisory Board (Table of Contents: 4) (Expand) /

promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page (report information)

The Best Present of All! (Table of Contents: 5)

Binky / public service announcement / 1 page (report information)

Script

Jack Schiff

Pencils

Bob Oksner

Inks

Bob Oksner

Colors

?

Letters

Ira Schnapp

Genre

advocacy; teen

Aquaman Walks the Plank! (Table of Contents: 6)

Aquaman / comic story / 5.67 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Ramona Fradon

Inks

Ramona Fradon

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Synopsis

The camelback (humped) whale is in danger of extinction, so whalers agree to spare them. Except Captain Samson, a piratical schooner whaler. Aquaman goes undercover as a sailor and blocks their harpooning. He's made to walk the plank in irons, but of course doesn't drown. He gets loose with help of fish friends, jolts Captain Samson with a "chain" of electric eels, and exacts a promise to avoid camelback whales. Samson even thinks, "... having Aquaman on [my] side could come in real handy some times!"

Reprints

• in Top Comics Wassermann (BSV - Williams, 1970 series) #105

Keywords

Whales; whaling

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 7)

statement of ownership / 0.33 page (report information)

Script

?

Letters

typeset

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 8) (Expand) /

Lucky Song Parade Co. / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 9)

Shorty / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

Henry Boltinoff (signed)

Pencils

Henry Boltinoff (signed)

Inks

Henry Boltinoff (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

Henry Boltinoff (signed)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

What a nice day in the park!

Genre

humor

The Second Fastest Man (Table of Contents: 10)

Johnny Quick / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Ralph Mayo

Inks

Ralph Mayo

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Synopsis

Johnny Chambers/Quick and Tubby Watts cover the Fastest Men's Club Annual Speed Meet. Sportsmen compete to fly the fastest jet, submarine, race car. But someone is cheating and Johnny Quick must prop up a failing helicopter, disarm a missile in mid-air, and puncture a jet in flight. The cheater goes to jail, but all the pros admit they'll always be "the second fastest man" compared to Johnny Quick.

Keywords

Helicopter; jet; race car; submarine

Do You Know How to Stay Alive? (Table of Contents: 11)

text article / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Mort Weisinger

Pencils

Raymond Perry (illustration)

Inks

Raymond Perry (illustration)

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Genre

non-fiction

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 12) (Expand) /

Hopalong Cassidy / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Crime's TV Station! (Table of Contents: 13)

Green Arrow / comic story / 7.67 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

George Papp

Inks

George Papp

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Synopsis

Green Arrow and Speedy bust a crooks distracted by - a TV show? They're astonished to see Station G-U-N is broadcasting real-crime reenactments to criminals via closed-circuit TV. Worse, the crooks broadcast fake footage, "Green Arrow's Disgrace", showing the hero cowardly running from criminals! "Great galloping ghosts!" Spying on a reenactment, the heroes follow the crooks to the secret TV studio, and bust the TV gang on live television for all criminals to see!

Reprints

• in Superman Annual (Atlas Publishing, 1951 series) #1963 (1963)

Keywords

CCTV; Television

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 14) (Expand) /

Wildroot Cream-Oil / advertisement / 0.33 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 15) (Expand) /

Cheerful Card Company / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 16) (Expand) /

Motor's Auto Repair Manual / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 17) (Expand) /

Daisy Manufacturing Company / advertisement / 1 page (report information)