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Adventure Comics, Issue #497
Publisher: DC
Series Title: Adventure Comics Vol: 48
Issue: #497
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Adventure 497 Back cover by Bender
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| Artist: | Howard Bender (Penciller) Frank Giacoia (Inker) |
| Media Type: | Pen and Ink |
| Art Type: | Cover |
| For Sale Status: | NFS |
| Views: | 212 |
| Comments: | 4 |
| Added to Site: | 5/8/2024 |
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| Type | Title | Creators | Characters | Synopsis |
| cover | Challengers of the Unknown [Red Ryan; Rocky Davis; Prof Haley; Ace Morgan]; Superboy; Ultra Boy | |||
| table of contents | Adventure Comics Contents | Letters: typeset | ||
| comic story | All Together Now! | Challengers of the Unknown [Ace Morgan; Rocky Davis; Prof Haley; Red Ryan] | The not-yet-Challengers investigate who sabotaged their plane. Red Ryan escorts an old friend, Johnny Green, in Las Vegas, when a car tries to run them down! Johnny explains HE was the target, not the heroes. Johnny won $300,000 from mobsters but hadn't collected. He was to fly to Vegas with Red. Mobsters planted a plastic sabotage device to crash the plane: plastic to fool metal detectors. The heroes meet the mobsters. A fight brings "Chaos in the Casino". Johnny gets paid and the mob goes to jail. And the heroes finally get their TV appearance as "Challengers of the Unknown!" | |
| comic story | The Boy with Ultra-Powers! | Superboy [also as Clark Kent]; Ultra Boy [Jo Nah, also as "Gary Crane"] (introduction and origin); Marla [also as "Ben Crane"]; Pete Ross; Krypto; Lana Lang; Martha Kent; Jonathan Kent | Ultra Boy must discover Superboy's secret identity as an initiation test for the Legion. | |
| comic story | The Explanation! | Aquaman; Mera; Vulko; Narkran; Aquagirl; Aqualad (cameo flashback); Aquababy (cameo flashback) | Mera has been held captive by the same gangsters Aquaman has been fighting. After they escape, they head for Atlantis for the final showdown with Narkran. | |
| comic story | The Mighty Marvels Join Forces! | Captain Marvel [also appears as Billy Batson]; Captain Marvel, Jr. [also appears as Freddy Freeman]; Mary Marvel [also appears as Mary Batson]; Uncle Marvel; Black Adam [Teth-Adam]; Shazam | The Marvel Family unite to battle the evil Black Adam. | |
| comic story | The Face Behind the Lead Mask! | Superboy [also appears as Clark Kent]; Legion of Super-Heroes [Cosmic Boy; Saturn Girl; Lightning Lad; Sun Boy; Chameleon Boy (statue); Bouncing Boy (statue); Shrinking Violet (statue); Invisible Kid [Lyle Norg] (statue)]; Lex Luthor; Urthlo; Mon-El | At a regular meeting of the Legion of Super-Heroes, the Legionnaires lose control of their powers. Urthlo arrives and announces that he now controls the Legionnaires' powers and there is nothing they can do about it. But Saturn Girl comes up with a serum to temporarily cure Mon-El and immunize him against lead, and Superboy releases him from the Phantom Zone to knock out Urthlo, who turns out to be an automaton created by Lex Luthor sent into the future to destroy the Legion. | |
| comic story | Stop That Kid... Before He Wrecks the World! | Spectre; Jim Corrigan; Hamilton Benedict | An evil force invades the body of young Hamilton Benedict, giving him supernatural powers to battle the Spectre. | |
| text article | Letters: typeset | Discussion of the Legion stories reprinted in the issue. | ||
| promo (ad from the publisher) | Legion of Super-Heroes [Lightning Lad; Brainiac 5; Cosmic Boy; Saturn Girl; Sun Boy]; Urthlo; Aquaman; Mera; Captain Marvel; Mary Marvel; Captain Marvel, Jr.; Black Adam; Spectre |
Data courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under a Creative Commons Attribution license.
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