Adventure Comics
#256
(January 1959)
DC,
1938 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1958-11-26
- 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.
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
in The Kryptonite Dragnet!
Superboy / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Superboy [Clark Kent]
- Reprints
- Keywords
- green kryptonite
The Dragnet for Superboy
Superboy / comic story / 12.67 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Superboy [Clark Kent]; Chief James Wilton; "Flash" Ward (villain); Jonathan Kent
- Synopsis
- An imposter takes over the role of police chief of Smallville and frames Superboy for a series of crimes. After a warrant is issued for his arrest, Superboy has no choice but to turn himself in.
- Keywords
- green kryptonite
[no title indexed]
Superman / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Can an invulnerable gorilla...
- Characters
- Titano
[no title indexed]
Jerry the Jitterbug / comic story / 0.5 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- What a doll!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Reprints
-
from Leave It to Binky (DC, 1948 series) #55 (July-August 1956)
-
The Ordeal of Aquaman
Aquaman / comic story / 5.67 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Aquaman; Topo
- Synopsis
- Criminals trap Aquaman and abandon him in the desert to die.
- Reprints
- in Tails of the Super-Pets (DC, 2022 series) ([July] 2022)
-
Indexer Notes
Writer credit from Martin O'Hearn at http://martinohearn.blogspot.com/ .
[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
- What's that, Sue - You'd like me to take a model downtown from your house?
- Genre
- humor; teen
The Green Arrow's First Case
Green Arrow / comic story / 6.67 pages
- Script
- Ed Herron; Jack Kirby ? (plot)
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Jack Kirby; Rosalind Kirby (backgrounds)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- John Duffy ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Did you ever wonder how Green Arrow came to be?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]; Speedy [Roy Harper]; Arrow-Plane; Carter (Seaman)
- Synopsis
- Oliver Queen is marooned on Starfish Island, where he hones his skills as an archer and develops trick arrows. When an expedition sets out to explore the island years later, he fools them with his fake-uranium arrow.
- Reprints
-
in The Hundred Comic Monthly (K. G. Murray, 1956 ? series) #33 ([June 1959]) -
in Superman Annual (Atlas Publishing, 1951 series) #1961-1962 (1961) [black and white] - in World's Finest Comics (DC, 1941 series) #187 (September 1969) which is reprinted
-
in Batman (Editorial Novaro, 1954 series) #537 (25 de julio de 1970) -
in Supermann (Illustrerte Klassikere / Williams Forlag, 1969 series) #2/1970 ([januar] 1970) - in Secret Origins of the Super DC Heroes (Crown Publishers, 1976 series) (1976)
- in Secret Origins of the Super DC Heroes (Warner Books, 1976 series) (August 1976)
- in DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest (DC, 1980 series) #9 (May 1981)
- 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)
-
in DC Comics Graphic Novel Collection (Eaglemoss Publications, 2015 series) #57 - Green Arrow - The Longbow Hunters ([März 2016]) - in Green Arrow: A Celebration of 75 Years (DC, 2016 series) ([August] 2016)
-
Indexer Notes
Origin of Green Arrow.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
The Kryptonite Dragnet!
Superboy -
1.
[no title indexed]
Stephens Credit Sales -
2.
The Dragnet for Superboy
Superboy -
3.
[no title indexed]
Tootsie Roll -
4.
Formula for Success!
-
5.
["Can an invulnerable gorilla..."]
Superman -
6.
["What a doll!"]
Jerry the Jitterbug -
7.
The Ordeal of Aquaman
Aquaman -
8.
[no title indexed]
Tootsie Roll Pop -
9.
[no title indexed]
Smallville Mailsack -
10.
["What's that, Sue - You'd like me to take a model downtown from your house?"]
Varsity Vic -
11.
The Green Arrow's First Case
Green Arrow -
12.
[no title indexed]
Tootsie Roll Fudge -
13.
[no title indexed]
Garcelon Stamp Co. -
14.
[no title indexed]
Daisy Air Rifles -
15.
[no title indexed]
National Radio Institute -
16.
[no title indexed]
Daisy Air Rifles
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Nick Caputo
- Katy Hayhurst
- Matthew Head
- Bob Hughes
- Stephen Mitchell
- Lou Mougin (R.I.P.)
- Mike Nielsen
- Gene Reed (R.I.P.)
- Jim Van Dore
- Sean Williams
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