Adventure Comics
#253
(October 1958)
DC,
1938 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1958-08-28
- 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.
Superboy Meets Robin!
Superboy / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Superboy; Robin; The Kents (photograph)
- Reprints
in 
Superboy Meets Robin the Boy Wonder
Superboy / comic story / 12.67 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Robin; Superman (flash-forward); Prof. Nichols; Ma Kent; Pa Kent; Lex Luthor
- Synopsis
- Prof Nichols sends Robin into the past to destroy a machine that will one day kill Superman.
- Reprints
-
in Superboy (DC, 1949 series) #133 (October 1966) - in Teen Titans (DC, 1966 series) #36 (November-December 1971)
-
in Super Adventure Comic (K. G. Murray, 1960 series) #52 ([Circa 1972-1973]) - in The Greatest Team-Up Stories Ever Told (DC, 1989 series) (1989 [January 1990])
- in The Greatest Team-Up Stories Ever Told (DC, 1990 series) ([June] 1990)
- in Superboy: The Greatest Team-Up Stories Ever Told (DC, 2010 series) ([March] 2010)
-
- Keywords
- kryptonite
Indexer Notes
A teenaged Luthor is depicted with thinning hair, this tale pre-dates the story "How Luthor Met Superboy" in Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #271 (April 1960). In the later issue Lex is shown losing a full head of hair in a laboratory accident, the version of events that is recognized as an integral part of the Silver Age Luthor/Superboy story.
[no title indexed]
Peg / comic story / 0.5 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Give me that check! I'll pay for Peg's soda!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Reprints
- from Leave It to Binky (DC, 1948 series) #26 (May-June 1952)
-
Prisoners of Dimension Zero!
Green Arrow / comic story / 5.67 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Green Arrow [Oliver Queen] (Feature); Speedy [Roy Harper]; Xeen Arrow (Guest); Alien Crooks (Villains); Arrowcar
- Synopsis
- In another dimension, Green Arrow and Speedy meet GA's counterpart Xeen Arrow and discover that due to a passing comet, a gateway to their dimension has opened up, and the mysterious giant arrows they encountered on Earth are merely children's toys from this other dimension which have passed through the gateway. The mystery solved, Xeen Arrow shoots them back to Earth through the gateway before it closes.
- Reprints
- in The Hundred Comic Monthly (K. G. Murray, 1956 ? series) #28 ([January 1959])
- in Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #449 (July 1975) [p. 1 omitted]
- in DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest (DC, 1980 series) #23 (July 1982)
- in The Greatest 1950s Stories Ever Told (DC, 1990 series) (1990 [January 1991])
- in The Greatest 1950s Stories Ever Told (DC, 1992 series) ([May] 1992)
- 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
Continued from last issue. Dave Wood credit in Jack Kirby Omnibus is inaccurate according to Martin O'Hearn.
[no title indexed]
Jerry the Jitterbug / comic story / 0.67 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I bought a nice present for Linda!
- Genre
- humor
- Reprints
- from A Date with Judy (DC, 1947 series) #27 (February-March 1952)
-
Wings and Winnie Winchester Bag a Thief
Winchester Super Speed Roller Skates / advertisement / 0.33 page
- Genre
- adventure
[no title indexed]
Smallville Mailsack / letters page / 1 page
Indexer Notes
First issue with letters page. Features letters from Dorothy Watson, Tony Mellio, Charles Fedder, Andrew Otis, and William Allen Hunter.
The Ocean of 1,000,000 B.C.
Aquaman / comic story / 5.67 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Aquaman; a caveman
- Synopsis
- Finding himself transported back in time, Aquaman discovers that he has no control over the prehistoric animals that surround him. He is forced to use his wits to survive until lightning returns him to his own era.
- Reprints
- in Century, The 100 Page Comic Monthly (K. G. Murray, 1956 series) #32 ([January 1959])
-
Indexer Notes
Writer credit from Martin O'Hearn at http://martinohearn.blogspot.com/. Formerly credited to Jack Miller.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
Superboy Meets Robin!
Superboy -
1.
Draw Me!
Art Instruction, Inc. -
2.
Superboy Meets Robin the Boy Wonder
Superboy -
3.
[no title indexed]
Tootsie Roll -
4.
["Give me that check! I'll pay for Peg's soda!"]
Peg -
5.
[no title indexed]
Palisades Amusement Park -
6.
Do You Know the Legend of Superman?
Action Comics -
7.
Prisoners of Dimension Zero!
Green Arrow -
8.
[no title indexed]
Tootsie Roll Pop -
9.
Lost -- A Free Education!
Binky -
10.
["I bought a nice present for Linda!"]
Jerry the Jitterbug -
11.
Wings and Winnie Winchester Bag a Thief
Winchester Super Speed Roller Skates -
12.
[no title indexed]
Smallville Mailsack -
13.
The Ocean of 1,000,000 B.C.
Aquaman -
14.
[no title indexed]
Tootsie Roll -
15.
[no title indexed]
Giant Dinosaurs -
16.
[no title indexed]
Stephens Credit Sales -
17.
Hey Skinny! ...Yer Ribs Are Showing!
Charles Atlas -
18.
[no title indexed]
Midwest Card Company
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Nick Caputo
- Matthew Head
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Bob Hughes
- Donald Dale Milne
- Lou Mougin (R.I.P.)
- Mike Nielsen
- Gene Reed (R.I.P.)
- Tony R. Rose
- Jim Van Dore
- Jim Walker
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