Adventure Comics
#308
(May 1963)
DC,
1938 Series
- Price
- 0.12 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1963-03-28
- 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 Superman #161 and copyright registration.
The Super-Menace of Smallville!
Superboy / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Superboy; Chief Parker; Lana Lang; Pete Ross; the Kents
Countdown on Excellence
public service announcement / 1 page
- Genre
- advocacy
- Characters
- Jerry; Jerry's father
- Synopsis
- Jerry gets a lecture from his father on the importance of doing every job right.
Indexer Notes
Printed in black-and-white on inside front cover.
The Super-Menace of Smallville!
Superboy / comic story / 14 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Superboy; Luthor; the Kents; Lana Lang; Pete Ross; Chief Parker
- Synopsis
- Luthor plagues Smallville with a Red Kryptonite plague.
[no title indexed]
Superman; Superboy; Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen, Action Comics / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.67 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Special announcement!
[no title indexed]
Smallville Mailsack / letters page / 1 page
Indexer Notes
Letters from Ken Newman, Ben Conner, Stuart Feuerstein, Herman Cummings, Eileen Watkins, and Russell Wittenburg; includes "Bits of Legionnarie Business."
204 Revolutionary War Soldiers
Revolutionary War Soldiers / advertisement / 0.5 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Russ Heath (signed as R H)
- Inks
- Russ Heath (signed as R H)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Editing
- ?
[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
- I'm tired. As soon as the soon as the show is over...
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Tricksy
- Synopsis
- Tricksy, a high-wire artist, can't find an empty bunk, so he goes to sleep on the high wire.
[no title indexed]
Tootsie [all other candies] / advertisement / 0.33 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Your eyes may play tricks... but not your taste!
- Feature Logo
- Tootsie Roll Pop
The Return of Lightning Lad!
Tales of the Legion of Super-Heroes / comic story / 10.67 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Legion of Super-Heroes [Cosmic Boy; Saturn Girl; Lightning Lass [as Lightning Lad]; Bouncing Boy; Chameleon Boy; Sun Boy; Mon-El; Lightning Lad (in flashback and lying in state); Shrinking Violet; Supergirl; Brainiac 5]; Proty
- Synopsis
- Lightning Lad's sister impersonates her dead brother and joins the Legion.
- Reprints
-
in Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #403 (March-April 1971) -
in All Star Adventure Comic (K. G. Murray, 1959 series) #92 ([April 1975]) - in Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #500 (June 1983)
- in The Legion of Super-Heroes Archives (DC, 1991 series) #2 ([December] 1992)
- in Showcase Presents: Legion of Super-Heroes (DC, 2007 series) #1 ([June] 2007)
- in Legion of Super-Heroes: The Silver Age Omnibus (DC, 2017 series) #1 ([October] 2017)
- in Legion of Super-Heroes: The Silver Age (DC, 2018 series) #1 ([October] 2018)
-
Indexer Notes
Intro Proty, Lightning Lass; Lightning Beasts of Korball app; Lightning Lad's body app.
[no title indexed]
Tootsie [all other candies] / advertisement / 0.33 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Kids!! Blast off your own space capsule
- Feature Logo
- Tootsie Roll Rocket
[no title indexed]
Palisades Amusement Park Admission / advertisement / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Be my guest at the Hippodrome International 3 Ring Circus...
[no title indexed]
American Body Building Club / advertisement / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Skinny or fat, 15, 20, 30 or 40 years of age...
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
The Super-Menace of Smallville!
Superboy -
1.
Countdown on Excellence
-
2.
The Super-Menace of Smallville!
Superboy -
3.
["Special announcement!"]
Superman; Superboy; Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen, Action Comics -
4.
Tootsie Roll Makes History!
Tootsie Roll -
5.
[no title indexed]
Smallville Mailsack -
6.
204 Revolutionary War Soldiers
Revolutionary War Soldiers -
7.
207 Stamps
Zenith Stamps -
8.
["I'm tired. As soon as the soon as the show is over..."]
Tricksy -
9.
["Your eyes may play tricks... but not your taste!"]
Tootsie [all other candies] -
10.
The Return of Lightning Lad!
Tales of the Legion of Super-Heroes -
11.
["Kids!! Blast off your own space capsule"]
Tootsie [all other candies] -
12.
["Be my guest at the Hippodrome International 3 Ring Circus..."]
Palisades Amusement Park Admission -
13.
Missile Attack!
Missile Attack -
14.
Convoy Terror
Convoy Terror -
15.
Task Force
Task Force -
16.
["Skinny or fat, 15, 20, 30 or 40 years of age..."]
American Body Building Club -
17.
147 Famous Automobiles
147 Famous Automobiles
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