Adventure Comics
#250
(July 1958)
DC,
1938 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1958-05-29
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- National Comics Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
Superman DC National Comics
- Editing
- Whitney Ellsworth (editor); Jack Schiff (managing editor); Mort Weisinger (story editor); George Kashdan (story editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from copyright registration.
Are You a Litter-Bug?
Little Pete / public service announcement / 1 page
- Script
- Jack Schiff
- Pencils
- Henry Boltinoff (signed)
- Inks
- Henry Boltinoff (signed)
- Letters
- Henry Boltinoff (signed)
- Genre
- advocacy; children; humor
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover.
The Impostor from the Year 2958
Superboy / comic story / 12 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Superboy [Clark Kent]; Lorac-K7; Pa Kent; Ma Kent; Prof Lang; Mayor Brook; Principal Sands; Lana Lang; Inspector Edaw-8; Mr. Carr
- Synopsis
- A criminal from the 30th Century comes to Smallville to get Cobalt to build a cobalt bomb, and disguises himself as a local resident and Superboy has to figure out which one.
- Reprints
-
in 80 Page Giant Magazine (DC, 1964 series) #10 (May 1965) -
in Giant Superboy Album (K. G. Murray, 1965 series) #2 ([June 1966] ?) -
in Superboy (Illustrerte Klassikere / Williams Forlag, 1969 series) #1/1972 ([januar ?] 1972)
-
Indexer Notes
Original version shows Clark watching TV. In the 80-Page Giant reprint, Clark receives pictures from the future on the radio.
Story retold from the Superman newspaper strip: episode 103 -- "The Impostor from the Year 3004."
[no title indexed]
Honey in Hollywood / comic story / 0.5 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Lisa is giving up her movie career to get married!
- Genre
- humor
- Reprints
- from The Adventures of Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis (DC, 1952 series) #2 (September-October 1952)
-
["Three seven-letter words can be spelled, using all seven letters in each word!" (TNGIDIE)]
Teen Twisters / activity / 1 page
- Reprints
- from The Adventures of Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis (DC, 1952 series) #26 (January 1956) [feature retitled]
-
- Keywords
- puzzle page
The Green Arrows of the World
Green Arrow / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Dave Wood ?; Ed Herron ?; Bill Finger ?
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Jack Kirby; Rosalind Kirby
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Joe Letterese
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]; Phantom of France; Green Arrow (Mexico); Green Arrow (Japan); Green Arrow (Switzerland); Bowman from Britain; Bowman of the Bush; Green Arrow (Polynesia); "Counterfeit" Carson
- Synopsis
- "Counterfeit" Carson attempts to crash a party by the Green Arrows of the world to get his revenge.
- Reprints
-
in Big Boy (Arédit-Artima, 1956 series) #29 (February 1959) - in Big Boss (Arédit-Artima, 1970 series) #18 (1974) [N&B [B&W]]
- in DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest (DC, 1980 series) #23 (July 1982)
- in The Green Arrow by Jack Kirby (DC, 2001 series) (2001 [January 2002])
- in Showcase Presents: Green Arrow (DC, 2006 series) #1 ([March] 2006)
- in The Jack Kirby Omnibus (DC, 2011 series) #1 ([October] 2011)
-
Indexer Notes
DC credited the script to Bill Finger in The Green Arrow by Jack Kirby and The Jack Kirby Omnibus #1 reprints, but they credit Dave Wood in the Showcase Presents Green Arrow #1 reprint. The GCD writing-experts' consensus is that Wood is the most-likely candidate, but Herron is possible, and Finger is also possible, but the least-likely of the three.
[no title indexed]
Animal Wonderworld! / comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- A snail has about 14,000 teeth!
- Genre
- non-fiction; animal
- Reprints
- from The Adventures of Rex the Wonder Dog (DC, 1952 series) #3 (May-June 1952)
-
The Guinea Pig of the Sea
Aquaman / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Aquaman; Dr. Rush
Indexer Notes
Writer credit from Martin O'Hearn at http://martinohearn.blogspot.com/ .
[no title indexed]
Little Pete / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Henry Boltinoff (signed)
- Pencils
- Henry Boltinoff (signed)
- Inks
- Henry Boltinoff (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Henry Boltinoff (signed)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Dad asked me to paint this fence today.
- Genre
- humor; children
- Reprints
- in Century, The 100 Page Comic Monthly (K. G. Murray, 1956 series) #32 ([January 1959])
-
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
The Hunter from the Future!
Superboy -
1.
Are You a Litter-Bug?
Little Pete -
2.
The Impostor from the Year 2958
Superboy -
3.
Meet the Space Ranger
Showcase; The Space Ranger -
4.
["Lisa is giving up her movie career to get married!"]
Honey in Hollywood -
5.
[no title indexed]
Palisades Amusement Park -
6.
["Three seven-letter words can be spelled, using all seven letters in each word!" (TNGIDIE)]
Teen Twisters -
7.
The Green Arrows of the World
Green Arrow -
8.
["A snail has about 14,000 teeth!"]
Animal Wonderworld! -
9.
[no title indexed]
Chuckle Box -
10.
The Guinea Pig of the Sea
Aquaman -
11.
["Dad asked me to paint this fence today."]
Little Pete -
12.
[no title indexed]
Stephens Credit Sales -
13.
Magic Magnifier Helps Betty & Jim Solve Big "Jewel Mystery!"
Wilson Chemical Co. -
14.
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