Adventure Comics
#294
(March 1962)
DC,
1938 Series
- Price
- 0.12 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1962-01-30
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- National Periodical Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
Superman DC National Comics
- Editing
- Mort Weisinger (editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from copyright registration.
The Halloween Pranks of the Bizarro-Supermen!
Bizarro / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; superhero
- Characters
- Bizarro-Lois [As Marilyn Monroe]; Bizarro Krypto; Two other Bizarros [as John Kennedy; Jerry Lewis]
- Reprints
-
in The Amazing World of DC Comics (DC, 1974 series) #9 (November-December 1975) - in Superman: Tales of the Bizarro World (DC, 2000 series) ([October] 2000)
-
[no title indexed]
Joe Weider Course and Products / advertisement / 1 page
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover.
Dial M for Monster!
Superboy / comic story / 12 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Superboy [Clark Kent]; Krypto; Martha Kent; Jonathan Kent; Lana Lang; Pete Ross; Chief Parker; Professor Lewis Lang; Lana Lang Robot; Mr. Mxyzptlk (cameo)
- Synopsis
- Aliens from Xnor come to visit Earth as tourists and are very annoying until Superboy can figure out a way to get them to leave.
- Keywords
- Xnor (planet)
[no title indexed]
Tricksy / comic story / 0.67 page
- Script
- Henry Boltinoff (signed)
- Pencils
- Henry Boltinoff (signed)
- Inks
- Henry Boltinoff (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Henry Boltinoff (signed)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Look at Tricksy zoom around that track!
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- Tricksy wears a safety belt, even when in the bathtub.
Coming... Super-Attractions!
Superman; Action Comics; Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.33 page
[no title indexed]
Smallville Mailsack / letters page / 1 page
Indexer Notes
Letters from: Robert I. Diamond, John Sykes, and Bernard McCarthy. Bits of Bizarro Business by: Ralph Cohen, Stuart Fisher, Kieran Forrester, Regina Harry, Edward Cates, Robert Polakoski, Denise Santori, Randy Jones, Steve Sampson, Heidi Aeurbach, and Marvin Sandler.
The Halloween Pranks of the Bizarro Supermen!
Bizarro / comic story / 13 pages
- Feature Logo
Tales of the Bizarro World- Genre
- humor; superhero
- Characters
- Bizarro No. 1 [also as Mickey Mantle]; Bizarro Lois No. 1; Bizarro Lois Lane [as Marilyn Monroe]; other Bizarro Superman [as Jerry Lewis]; other Bizarro Superman [as John Kennedy]; Bizarro Krypto; Bizarro Lana Lang; Bizarro Kltpzyxm; Krypto; Bizarro Lex Luthor
- Synopsis
- On Bizarro world, it's the adults who wear masks and play pranks on Halloween. But when Bizarro No. 1 plays cruel tricks on him, Bizarro Krypto searches for a better companion.
- Reprints
- in Superman in the Sixties (DC, 1999 series) ([November] 1999)
- in Superman: Tales of the Bizarro World (DC, 2000 series) ([October] 2000)
-
- Keywords
- blue kryptonite
Indexer Notes
Inker credit by Bob Hughes; we formerly credited George Klein.
[no title indexed]
Professor Eureka / comic story / 0.67 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Today's lecture will be on the philosophy of the ancient Inca Indians!
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A student falls asleep during the professor's two-hour lecture. He asks another student to wake him, but the response is "You do it professor. You put him to sleep!"
- Reprints
- from Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #216 (May 1956)
-
[no title indexed]
statement of ownership / 0.33 page
- Script
- Jack Liebowitz
- Letters
- typeset
Indexer Notes
Statement of Ownership for October 1, 1961: Average sales 460,000.
[no title indexed]
Little Pete / comic story / 0.5 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Boy - Look at all these snowballs!
- Genre
- humor; children
- Synopsis
- A man wearing many hats makes a great target.
- Reprints
- from Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #144 (May 1950)
-
[no title indexed]
Junior Sales Club of America Cards / advertisement / 1 page
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
The Halloween Pranks of the Bizarro-Supermen!
Bizarro -
1.
[no title indexed]
Joe Weider Course and Products -
2.
Dial M for Monster!
Superboy -
3.
[no title indexed]
Justice League of America; Aquaman -
4.
From Many Lands...
-
5.
["Look at Tricksy zoom around that track!"]
Tricksy -
6.
Coming... Super-Attractions!
Superman; Action Comics; Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane -
7.
[no title indexed]
Smallville Mailsack -
8.
The Halloween Pranks of the Bizarro Supermen!
Bizarro -
9.
["Today's lecture will be on the philosophy of the ancient Inca Indians!"]
Professor Eureka -
10.
[no title indexed]
-
11.
[no title indexed]
Chet Atkins Method -
12.
["Boy - Look at all these snowballs!"]
Little Pete -
13.
[no title indexed]
Best Values Coins and Currency -
14.
[no title indexed]
100 Toy Soldiers -
15.
[no title indexed]
Junior Sales Club of America Cards -
16.
[no title indexed]
American Seeds
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Bob Bailey
- Peter Croome
- Jan Roar Hansen
- Matthew Head
- Bob Hughes
- Donald Dale Milne
- Mike Nielsen
- Gene Reed (R.I.P.)
- Tony R. Rose
- Allen Ross
- Per Sandell
- Jim Van Dore
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