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Adventure Comics, Issue #495
Publisher: DC
Series Title: Adventure Comics Vol: 48
Issue: #495
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Adventure Comics 495 p.8
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| Artist: | Alex Toth (Penciller) Frank Giacoia (Inker) |
| Media Type: | Pen and Ink |
| Art Type: | Interior Page |
| For Sale Status: | PERMANENT COLLECTION |
| Views: | 375 |
| Comments: | 2 |
| Added to Site: | 12/29/2022 |
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Adventure 495 back cover
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| Artist: | Romeo Tanghal (Inker) Keith Giffen (Penciller) |
| Media Type: | Pen and Ink |
| Art Type: | Cover |
| For Sale Status: | NFS |
| Views: | 678 |
| Comments: | 0 |
| Added to Site: | 9/23/2007 |
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Issue Breakdown
| Type | Title | Creators | Characters | Synopsis |
| cover | Challengers of the Unknown [Red Ryan]; Legion of Super-Heroes [Superboy; Saturn Girl; Lightning Lad; Cosmic Boy] | |||
| table of contents | For Nearly 50 Years, the Leader in Innovation Has Been... Adventure Comics | Letters: typeset | ||
| comic story | Yesterday's Clues! | Challengers of the Unknown [Ace Morgan; Rocky Davis; Professor Haley; Red Ryan] | Continued from last issue... The not-yet-Challengers hang in Rocky's apartment, reading and paying bills. Only Professor Haley frets about the jet sabotage. Ace wonders if he's the target. Red recounts how he was installing a radio tower in South America and almost killed by a dictator. Professor Haley recounts how he helped rescue a sunken statue. Professor Haley had inherited a fortune that cut his cousin Freddie out of the will. Professor Haley needs to talk to Freddie. But first, Red has something to confess... Continued. | |
| comic story | The Secret of the Seventh Super-Hero! | Superboy [also appears as Clark Kent]; Sun Boy (impostor); Tom Tanner; Legion of Super-Heroes [Cosmic Boy; Lightning Lad; Saturn Girl; Phantom Girl; Brainiac 5; Chameleon Boy; Sun Boy]; Lana Lang; Martha Kent; Chief Parker | Superboy meets new Legion member Sun Boy (who is later revealed to be an impostor). Meanwhile, reform school escapee Tom Tanner (a double for Clark Kent) tries to take over Clark's life in Smallville. | |
| comic story | Underworld Reward! | Aquaman; Aqualad; Mera (cameo flashback); Aquababy (cameo flashback) | Aquaman finds himself in conflict with a gang of unnamed criminals. | |
| comic story | The Man Without a World! | Captain Marvel; Dr. Sivana | Sivana tricks Captain Marvel into believing that he killed all the inhabitants of a planet. | |
| comic story | The Legion of Super-Traitors! | Superboy [also appears as Clark Kent]; Legion of Super-Heroes [Lightning Lad; Cosmic Boy; Saturn Girl]; Legion of Super-Pets [Krypto, Streaky, Super-Monkey, Super-Horse]; Brain Globes of Rambat; Lana Lang; Martha Kent; Jonathan Kent; Jax-Ur; General Zod; Mon-El | Superboy is attacked by his friends in the Legion, under the evil influence of the Brain-Globes of Rambat. After the Legionnaires regain their senses, they gather four super-pets to defeat the Brain-Globes. | |
| comic story | Crime Carnival! | Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; Sandy; Stretcho; Midge; Presto; Samson | Sandman and Sandy battle the villains of the Mammoth Carnival. | |
| comic story | Die, Spectre--Again! | Spectre [Jim Corrigan]; Dirk Rawley; Mona Marcy; Commissioner Hackett | The evil etheric body of magician Dirk Rawley emerges and forces him into crime. | |
| text article | The Story Behind the Stories | Letters: typeset | Background information on the two Superboy/Legion reprints in this issue. | |
| cover | 100 Pages of Non-Stop Adventure! | Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; Sandy; Superboy; Sun Boy (impostor); Captain Marvel; Spectre; Aquaman |
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