Adventure Comics
#377
(February 1969)
DC,
1938 Series
- Price
- 0.12 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1968-12-26
- 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); E. Nelson Bridwell (assistant editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from copyright registration.
Heroes for Hire!
Tales of the Legion of Super-Heroes / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Legion of Super-Heroes [Superboy [Kal-El]; Princess Projectra [Projectra Wind'zzor]]
- Reprints
-
in Lançamento (2ª Série) [A Legião dos Super-Heróis] (Editora Brasil-América [EBAL], 1968 series) #23 -
in Superboy (Illustrerte Klassikere / Williams Forlag, 1969 series) #8/1969 ([august] 1969) [edited reprint] -
in The Legion of Super-Heroes Archives (DC, 1991 series) #9 (1999 [January 2000]), #9 (1999 [January 2000]) - in Showcase Presents: Legion of Super-Heroes (DC, 2007 series) #4 ([November] 2010)
- in Legion of Super-Heroes: The Silver Age Omnibus (DC, 2017 series) #3 ([August] 2020)
-
Heroes for Hire!
Tales of the Legion of Super-Heroes / comic story / 16 pages
- Script
- Jim Shooter
- Pencils
- Jim Shooter (layouts); Win Mortimer
- Inks
- Jack Abel
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Joe Letterese
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Legion of Super-Heroes [Karate Kid [Val Armorr]; Superboy [Kal-El]; Brainiac 5 [Querl Dox]; Duo Damsel [Luornu Durgo]; Princess Projectra [Projectra Wind'Zorr]]; Modulus; Alk Ranff; Leland McCauley III; Carey
- Synopsis
- After the Legion learns of a drug-dealing operation, they begin to demand payment for their hero services.
- Reprints
- in Superboy (Illustrerte Klassikere / Williams Forlag, 1969 series) #8/1969 ([august] 1969)
-
in Superman Supacomic (K. G. Murray, 1959 series) #127 ([Circa March 1970]) - in The Legion of Super-Heroes Archives (DC, 1991 series) #9 (1999 [January 2000])
- in Showcase Presents: Legion of Super-Heroes (DC, 2007 series) #4 ([November] 2010)
- in Legion of Super-Heroes: The Silver Age Omnibus (DC, 2017 series) #3 ([August] 2020)
-
- Keywords
- Gnogg; Mercury; Modo; Rojun
[no title indexed]
Ollie / comic story / 0.67 page
- Script
- Henry Boltinoff (signed)
- Pencils
- Henry Boltinoff (signed)
- Inks
- Henry Boltinoff (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Henry Boltinoff (signed)
- Editing
- ?
- Job Number
- 3306
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- There's Ollie walking in his sleep again...
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Ollie
- Synopsis
- Ollie goes sleepwalking.
Indexer Notes
Located between page 8 and 9 of story.
[no title indexed]
The Legion Outpost / letters page / 1 page
- Script
- Mort Weisinger
- Pencils
- Curt Swan ? (logo illustration)
- Inks
- George Klein ? (logo illustration)
- Colors
- ? (logo illustration)
- Letters
- typeset
- Characters
- Legion of Super-Heroes [Shrinking Violet; Chameleon Boy; Colossal Boy; Saturn Girl; Superboy; Cosmic Boy; Light Lass; Sun Boy; Bouncing Boy] (logo illustration)
Indexer Notes
Located between pages 4 and 15 of story. Excerpts of letters from Bradley Anderson, Harvey Sobel, Leonard Philip Zinna, Paul Palmer, Daniel Wheeler, Bob Sajewski, Scott Gibson, Keith Friedman, Jon Roger McKenzie, Tommy Law, Yvan Bond, Jon Farwell, Kris Reeves, Peter C. Hall, David Franklin.
[Part II] The Money Mad Members
Tales of the Legion of Super-Heroes / comic story / 6.67 pages
- Script
- Jim Shooter
- Pencils
- Jim Shooter (layouts); Win Mortimer (pencils)
- Inks
- Jack Abel
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Joe Letterese
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Legion of Super-Heroes [Princess Projectra [Projectra Wind'Zorr]; Brainiac 5 [Querl Dox]; Karate Kid [Val Armorr]; Chemical King [Condo Arlik]]
- Synopsis
- The Legionnaires' money-hunger turns out to be a plan to collect the materials necessary to put Modulus out of business.
- Reprints
- in Superboy (Illustrerte Klassikere / Williams Forlag, 1969 series) #8/1969 ([august] 1969)
- in Superman Supacomic (K. G. Murray, 1959 series) #127 ([Circa March 1970])
- in The Legion of Super-Heroes Archives (DC, 1991 series) #9 (1999 [January 2000])
- in Showcase Presents: Legion of Super-Heroes (DC, 2007 series) #4 ([November] 2010)
- in Legion of Super-Heroes: The Silver Age Omnibus (DC, 2017 series) #3 ([August] 2020)
-
[no title indexed]
Super-Turtle / comic story / 0.67 page
- Script
- Henry Boltinoff (signed)
- Pencils
- Henry Boltinoff (signed)
- Inks
- Henry Boltinoff (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Henry Boltinoff (signed)
- Job Number
- 3329
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Super-Turtle to the rescue!
- Genre
- humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals; superhero
- Characters
- Super-Turtle
- Synopsis
- When a woman calls for help from a burning building, Super-Turtle tells her he'll be right back. He flies by the Daily Planet and notifies them of the fire, so they can take pictures of him rescuing the woman for the next day's newspaper.
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Table of Contents
-
0.
Heroes for Hire!
Tales of the Legion of Super-Heroes -
1.
Heroes for Hire!
Tales of the Legion of Super-Heroes -
2.
["There's Ollie walking in his sleep again..."]
Ollie -
3.
[no title indexed]
The Legion Outpost -
4.
[Part II] The Money Mad Members
Tales of the Legion of Super-Heroes -
5.
["Super-Turtle to the rescue!"]
Super-Turtle -
6.
[no title indexed]
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