Adventure Comics
#249
(June 1958)
DC,
1938 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1958-04-29
- 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 (credited) (editor); Jack Schiff (managing editor); Mort Weisinger (story editor); George Kashdan (story editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from copyright registration.
The Stolen Superboy Cape
Superboy / comic story / 12 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Ma Kent; Pa Kent
[no title indexed]
Little Pete / comic story / 0.67 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- C'mon, Timmy, strike him out!
- Genre
- humor; children
- Reprints
-
from Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #180 (February 1952)
-
Wings and Winnie Winchester Do a Good Deed
Winchester Roller Skates / advertisement / 0.33 page
- Genre
- adventure
Indexer Notes
Ad for Winchester Super Speed Roller Skates.
[no title indexed]
Shorty / comic story / 0.5 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I better get to bed early...
- Genre
- humor
- Reprints
- from Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #148 (September 1950)
-
[no title indexed]
Fun an' Fact / cartoon / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- A million pennies piled one on top of the other would reach about 5,208 feet high!
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Reprints
- from Funny Stuff (DC, 1944 series) #49 (Septermber 1949)
-
[no title indexed]
Varsity Vic / 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
- I'd better hurry. I've got a date with Millie...
- Genre
- humor
Glad to See You!
Sgt. Bilko's Pvt. Doberman / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; military
Wanted – Aqua-Crook
Aquaman / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Aquaman (also as Agent X-22), Topo; The Barnacle Gang
- Reprints
- Keywords
- Amnesia
in Indexer Notes
Writer credit from Martin O'Hearn at http://martinohearn.blogspot.com/ . Formerly credited to Otto Binder.
Nature's Prize Pupil!
public service announcement / 1 page
- Genre
- non-fiction; advocacy
- Synopsis
- "...Nature's ways are amazing--and man is the most amazing because, by reading, observing and understanding the world about him, he constantly enriches himself!"
[no title indexed]
Joe Weider Course and Products / advertisement / 1 page
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
Superboy's Lost Costume!
Superboy -
1.
[no title indexed]
Littleton Stamps -
2.
The Stolen Superboy Cape
Superboy -
3.
["C'mon, Timmy, strike him out!"]
Little Pete -
4.
Wings and Winnie Winchester Do a Good Deed
Winchester Roller Skates -
5.
["I better get to bed early..."]
Shorty -
6.
[no title indexed]
Palisades Amusement Park Admission -
7.
["A million pennies piled one on top of the other would reach about 5,208 feet high!"]
Fun an' Fact -
8.
The Man Who Hated Arrows
Green Arrow -
9.
["I'd better hurry. I've got a date with Millie..."]
Varsity Vic -
10.
Glad to See You!
Sgt. Bilko's Pvt. Doberman -
11.
[no title indexed]
Chuckle Box -
12.
Wanted – Aqua-Crook
Aquaman -
13.
Nature's Prize Pupil!
-
14.
[no title indexed]
Stephens Credit Sales Mottoes -
15.
[no title indexed]
Joe Weider Course and Products -
16.
[no title indexed]
100 Toy Soldiers
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- Katie
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- Jan Roar Hansen
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- Matthew Head
- Bob Hughes
- Donald Dale Milne
- Lou Mougin (R.I.P.)
- Mark Muller
- Mike Nielsen
- Gene Reed (R.I.P.)
- Jim Van Dore
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