Adventure Comics #322

(July 1964)

Treasure Chest of Fun (Table of Contents: 1) (Expand) /

Honor House Prod. Corp. / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Part I: The Super-Tests of the Super-Pets! (Table of Contents: 2)

Tales of the Legion of Super-Heroes / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

Edmond Hamilton

Pencils

John Forte

Inks

Sheldon Moldoff; Al Plastino (head photostated/pasted on Superboy, page 3, panel 1)

Colors

?

Letters

Milt Snapinn

Genre

superhero

Characters

Legion of Super-Pets [Super-Horse [Comet]; Krypto; Streaky; Super-Monkey [Beppo]; Proty II]; Legion of Super-Heroes [Superboy; Phantom Girl; Sun Boy; Lightning Lad; Brainiac 5; Light Lass; Saturn Girl; Mon-El; Chameleon Boy]; Legion of Substitute-Heroes [Fire Lad; Chlorophyll Kid; Polar Boy; Night Girl]; Supergirl

Synopsis

With the Legion away trying to capture the Time Trapper, the Super-Pets are left in charge. They assign Proty II tests to prove he can join their ranks.

Reprints

• in Superman Supacomic (K. G. Murray, 1959 series) #66 (Circa February 1965)
• in The Best of DC (DC, 1979 series) #44 (January 1984)
• in The Legion of Super-Heroes Archives (DC, 1991 series) #3 ([October] 1993)
• in Showcase Presents: Legion of Super-Heroes (DC, 2007 series) #2 ([June] 2008)
• in Legion of Super-Heroes: The Silver Age Omnibus (DC, 2017 series) #1 ([October] 2017)
• in Tails of the Super-Pets (DC, 2022 series) ([July] 2022)

Indexer Notes

Superboy head by Al Plastino spotted by Bob Bailey. We previously credited Plastino with the splash pages of both chapters.

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

L. C. Leprechaun; Lucky Charms / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

The Whole Batman Family! (Table of Contents: 4) (Expand) /

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

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 5) (Expand) /

Palisades Amusement Park / advertisement / 0.5 page (report information)

Part II: The Pet of a Thousand Faces (Table of Contents: 6)

Tales of the Legion of Super-Heroes / comic story / 8.67 pages (report information)

Script

Edmond Hamilton

Pencils

John Forte

Inks

Sheldon Moldoff

Colors

?

Letters

Joe Letterese (balloons on page 1 only); Vivian Berg ?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Legion of Super-Pets [Super-Horse [Comet]; Streaky; Super-Monkey [Beppo]; Krypto; Proty II [also as Chameleon Boy]]; Legion of Super-Heroes [Saturn Girl; Mon-El; Superboy; Sun Boy; Ultra Boy; Brainiac 5]

Synopsis

Proty II passes his final tests and is admitted into the Legion of Super-Pets.

Reprints

• in Superman Supacomic (K. G. Murray, 1959 series) #66 (Circa February 1965)
• in Superboy (Semic, 1977 series) #7/1977 ([juli] 1977) [part 2]
• in The Best of DC (DC, 1979 series) #44 (January 1984)
• in The Legion of Super-Heroes Archives (DC, 1991 series) #3 ([October] 1993)
• in Showcase Presents: Legion of Super-Heroes (DC, 2007 series) #2 ([June] 2008)
• in Legion of Super-Heroes: The Silver Age Omnibus (DC, 2017 series) #1 ([October] 2017)
• in Tails of the Super-Pets (DC, 2022 series) ([July] 2022)

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

Rocky and Bullwinkle; Cheerios / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

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

Tootsie Roll Fudge / advertisement / 0.33 page (report information)

Watch for the First 80 Page Superboy Annual! (Table of Contents: 9) (Expand) /

Giant Superboy Annual / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 10)

The Legion Outpost / letters page / 0.67 page (report information)

Script

?

Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

Letters from Harry Delugach, Gordon Ross, Joan Peters, Jim Lawson, Jon Lederhouse, and Jeff Shaffer.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 11) (Expand) /

Tootsie Roll / advertisement / 0.33 page (report information)

Clark Kent, Class Cheat (Table of Contents: 12)

Superboy / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

Otto Binder

Pencils

George Papp

Inks

George Papp

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Superboy; Lana Lang; Johnny Carson (Not the TV star)

Synopsis

Clark deliberately starts flunking tests so he can break a ring of cheaters in his school.

Reprints

• from Superboy (DC, 1949 series) #66 (July 1958)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 13) (Expand) /

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

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

Little Pete / comic story / 0.67 page (report information)

Script

Henry Boltinoff

Pencils

Henry Boltinoff (signed)

Inks

Henry Boltinoff (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

Henry Boltinoff

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Peanuts! Oh boy.

Genre

humor; children

Characters

Little Pete

Synopsis

Little Pete begs like a squirrel to get free peanuts.

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

Tootsie Roll Pop / advertisement / 0.33 page (report information)

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

American Body Building Club / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

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

Aurora / advertisement / 1 page (report information)