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Adventure Comics, Issue #496
Publisher: DC
Series Title: Adventure Comics Vol: 48
Issue: #496
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Toth & Giacoia Challengers
Art Details
| Artist: | Alex Toth (Penciller) Frank Giacoia (Inker) |
| Media Type: | Pen and Ink |
| Art Type: | Interior Page |
| For Sale Status: | NFS |
| Views: | 1159 |
| Comments: | 4 |
| Added to Site: | 3/15/2018 |
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| Type | Title | Creators | Characters | Synopsis |
| cover | Supergirl; Cosmic Boy; Sun Boy | |||
| table of contents | For Nearly 50 Years, the Leader in Innovation Has Been... Adventure Comics | Letters: typeset | ||
| comic story | Tomorrow's Answers! | Rocky Davis; Prof Haley; Ace Morgan; Red Ryan; Cyrus Haley | Continued from last issue... The not-yet-Challengers are still trying to discover who sabotaged their jet... In Hawaii, Prof and Rocky pay a call on Prof's cousin Freddie, who was passed over to inherit Uncle Cyrus's fortune. Rocky kicks in a door - and finds Uncle Cyrus, alive and cranky! Cyrus faked his death to avoid taxes, and now attacks Prof with his cane! Cyrus collapses with heart trouble. Neither the old man nor Freddie could have rigged a sabotage... In Las Vegas, Ace and Red visit Bernie, a loan shark that gambler Red owes a fortune. He wants Red alive to pay his debt. What about Johnny Green, an old friend of Red's? He was supposed to fly with them. As for the plastic sabotage gizmo - Ace yells, "Plastic, that's it!" Continued... | |
| comic story | Supergirl's Greatest Challenge! | Supergirl [also appears as Linda Danvers]; Lois Lane; Legion of Super-Heroes [Cosmic Boy; Lightning Lad; Saturn Girl; Sun Boy; Bouncing Boy]; Whizzy (descendant of Streaky); Positive Man; Chameleon Men [also appear disguised as Legionnaires]; Fred Danvers; Edna Danvers; Streaky | Traveling to the 30th century, Supergirl defeats the Positive Man to help the Legion of Super-Heroes, who have lost their powers. Later, she exposes the Chameleon Men who have been posing as the Legionnaires. | |
| comic story | Underworld Reward, Part 2 | Aquaman; Aqualad; Mera (cameo) | Aquaman defeats the nameless gangsters then is transported away by a mysterious invention and finds Mera standing before him. | |
| comic story | The Mystery of the Missing Newsstand! | Captain Marvel, Jr. [also appears as Freddy Freeman]; Good-Natured Joe | Captain Marvel, Jr. battles a gang of crooks who stole Freddy's newsstand. | |
| comic story | Superman's Super-Courtship! | Supergirl [also appears as Linda Danvers]; Superman; Luma Lynai; Helen of Troy; Rhondous; adult Legion of Super-Heroes [Cosmic Man; Phantom Woman; Chameleon Man; Triplicate Woman; Sun Man; Saturn Woman; Brainiac 5; Lightning Man]; Fred Danvers; Edna Danvers | Supergirl tries to find the perfect mate for Superman. | |
| comic story | Dreams of Doom | Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; Sandy [Sandy Hawkins]; Monroe Alvin; Torchy Grogan; Bugs Baron; Doctor Hoak | One of America's richest men is afraid of the dark and turns to the Sandman to solve his problem and hopefully end his horrific nightmares. But the man's personal psychiatrist has different ideas. | |
| comic story | Menace of the Mystic Mastermind | Spectre; Jim Corrigan; Wildcat [Ted Grant]; Jack Dold | When interdimensional forces accidentally grant superpowers to "Sad" Jack Dold, he embarks on a crime spree and battles Wildcat and the Spectre. | |
| text article | The Story Behind the Stories | Letters: typeset | ||
| promo (ad from the publisher) | Spectre; Wildcat [Ted Grant]; Jack Dold; Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; Sandy; Monroe Alvin; Captain Marvel, Jr; Aquaman |
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