Adventure Comics #502 [Direct]

(August 1983)

Adventure Comics (Table of Contents)

foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Letters:

typeset

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover. Table of contents.

["Boy, that Plastic Man is somethin' else!"] (Table of Contents)

Plastic Man / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Martin Pasko

Pencils:

Joe Staton

Inks:

Bob Smith

Colors:

?

Letters:

Ben Oda

Editing:

Len Wein (original story)

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Plastic Man; Woozy Winks; Chief Branner; Terry Cotta; Trowel [Mason Stucko]; Cindy Block; Brickface

Synopsis:

Plas and Woozy investigate the murder of Alonzo Van Rivett.

Reprints:

• from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #470 (April 1980)

Part I: The Renegade Super-Hero! (Table of Contents)

Tales of the Legion of Super-Heroes / comic story / 9 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Edmond Hamilton

Pencils:

John Forte

Inks:

John Forte

Colors:

?

Letters:

Milton Snapinn

Editing:

Mort Weisinger (original story)

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Legion of Super-Heroes [Superboy; Ultra Boy; Phantom Girl; Saturn Girl; Sun Boy; Brainiac 5; Mon-El; Lightning Lad; Chameleon Boy; Bouncing Boy; Cosmic Boy; Shrinking Violet; Element Lad; Colossal Boy (cameo); Lightning Lass (cameo); Invisible Kid (cameo)]; Proty II

Synopsis:

Ultra Boy is revealed to be an escaped convict and flees the Legion.

Reprints:

• from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #316 (January 1964)

Part II: The End of a Super-Traitor! (Table of Contents)

Tales of the Legion of Super-Heroes / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Edmond Hamilton

Pencils:

John Forte

Inks:

John Forte

Colors:

?

Letters:

Milton Snapinn

Editing:

Mort Weisinger (original story)

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Legion of Super-Heroes [Ultra Boy; Phantom Girl; Saturn Girl; Sun Boy; Brainiac 5; Mon-El; Chameleon Boy; Cosmic Boy; Element Lad; Invisible Kid]; Proty II

Synopsis:

Ultra Boy's criminal past is revealed to be a ruse, so that he could infiltrate a pirate band.

Reprints:

• from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #316 (January 1964)

The Human Hawks (Table of Contents)

Captain Marvel / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Otto Binder

Pencils:

C. C. Beck

Inks:

C. C. Beck

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Editing:

Wendell Crowley (original story)

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Captain Marvel [also appears as Billy Batson]; Dudley Wright

Synopsis:

Captain Marvel must rescue explorer Dudley Wright from the Hawkmen, a band of winged humans in the Himalayss.

Reprints:

• from Captain Marvel Adventures (Fawcett, 1941 series) #143 (April 1953)

The Parchment of Power Perilous (Table of Contents)

The Spectre / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Steve Skeates

Pencils:

Jerry Grandenetti

Inks:

Murphy Anderson

Colors:

?

Letters:

Jerry Grandenetti

Editing:

Julius Schwartz (original story)

Content Information

Genre:

superhero; occult

Characters:

The Spectre; Jim Corrigan; Narkran; Carstagg Mob

Synopsis:

The Spectre carelessly injures a human, and is set up to be punished in later stories.

Reprints:

• from The Spectre (DC, 1967 series) #8 (January-February 1969)

Can This Be Death? (Table of Contents)

Aquaman / comic story / 16 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Steve Skeates

Pencils:

Jim Aparo

Inks:

Jim Aparo

Colors:

?

Letters:

Jim Aparo

Editing:

Dick Giordano (original story)

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Aquaman; Aqualad; Mera; Ocean Master

Synopsis:

The Ocean Master tries to warn Aquaman just before the Sea King is teleported to an alien world.

Reprints:

• from Aquaman (DC, 1962 series) #50 (March-April 1970)

Indexer Notes

Aparo draws panel on pg 11 using most of the names of DC staffers as part of the background.

Zatanna, the Magician (Table of Contents)

Zatanna / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Len Wein

Pencils:

Gray Morrow

Inks:

Gray Morrow

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Editing:

Joe Orlando (original story)

Content Information

Genre:

occult; superhero

Characters:

Zatanna; Zatara; Jeff Sloane; Justice League of America [Hawkman; Elongated Man; Flash [Barry Allen]; Atom [Ray Palmer]; Green Lantern [Hal Jordan]; Batman](all in cameo flashback)

Synopsis:

An unseen villain gains control of Zatara and forces him to send Zatanna and Jeff into another dimension.

Reprints:

• from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #413 (December 1971)

Part I: The Menace of Dream Girl! (Table of Contents)

Tales of the Legion of Super-Heroes / comic story / 9 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Edmond Hamilton

Pencils:

John Forte

Inks:

John Forte

Colors:

?

Letters:

Milton Snapinn

Editing:

Mort Weisinger (original story)

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Legion of Super-Heroes [Saturn Girl; Lightning Lass; Brainiac 5; Star Boy; Matter-Eater Lad; Superboy; Mon-El; Sun Boy; Triplicate Girl; Bouncing Boy; Dream Girl (joins)]; Rann Antar (applicant)

Synopsis:

Dream Girl joins, causes Lightning Lass to lose her powers, and has Lightning Lass and Triplicate Girl expelled.

Reprints:

• from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #317 (February 1964)

Part II: The Doom of the Legion! (Table of Contents)

Tales of the Legion of Super-Heroes / comic story / 9 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Edmond Hamilton

Pencils:

John Forte

Inks:

John Forte

Colors:

?

Letters:

Milton Snapinn

Editing:

Mort Weisinger (original story)

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Legion of Super-Heroes [Dream Girl (leaves); Saturn Girl; Brainiac 5; Star Boy; Matter-Eater Lad; Triplicate Girl; Sun Boy; Lightning Lad; Ultra Boy; Bouncing Boy; Shrinking Violet; Superboy; Lightning Lass [becomes Light Lass]; Chameleon Boy (cameo)]

Synopsis:

Dream Girl has more Legionnaires expelled, in order to prevent her prediction of their deaths. The prediction proves false, Dream Girl leaves and the others are reinstated. She has also altered Lightning Lass's powers to the ability to make things super-light.

Reprints:

• from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #317 (February 1964)

The Story Behind the Stories (Table of Contents)

text article / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Paul Levitz (signed)

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Synopsis:

Paul Levitz discusses the two Legion stories reprinted in this issue.

Indexer Notes

Inside back cover.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Aquaman; Captain Marvel; The Spectre; Zatanna; Plastic Man / foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Pencils:

Howard Bender [as Bender] (signed)

Inks:

Larry Mahlstedt [as Mahlstedt] (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Aquaman; Billy Batson; Captain Marvel; Spectre; Zatanna; Jeff Sloane; Plastic Man

Indexer Notes

back cover. Previews of the stories in the issue.