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Issue: Adventure Comics #298
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Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
On Sale Date: 05/29/1962
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.12 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 15 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Mort Weisinger
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from ad in Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen #62 and copyright registration.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S.; standard Silver Age U.S.; standard Modern Age U.S.; digest size (5" x 6.75") #491-503
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior; thin cardboard stock cover (digest size)
Binding: saddle-stitched; squarebound #390, 416, 491-503
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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The Fat Superboy!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Curt Swan
George Klein
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Subject Matter
superhero
Superboy
Lana Lang
Reprinting
FlagSuperman in the Sixties #[nn] published November 1999
as Lighthearted Fun [Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword on Interior Page(s)]cover repro
 
Miscellaneous
1
For the Best in Comics Entertainment

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Inside front cover.
The Fat Boy of Steel!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Robert Bernstein
Al Plastino
Al Plastino
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?
Subject Matter
superhero
Superboy
Lana Lang; Ma Kent; Pa Kent; Chief Parker; Pete Ross; Krypto
A fatness epidemic strikes Smallville, at the same time red kryptonite makes Superboy fat.
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
13
[untitled]

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
Giant Batman Annual; Giant Lois Lane Annual
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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typeset
Subject Matter
Smallville Mailsack
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
2
Letters from Arnold Secrest, Bob Birnberg, John Santino, Jr., Marvin Sandler, Jay Means, Jack Smathers, Mary Lou Guillen, Patsy Revere, Richard Haydu and "Bits of Bizarro Business" from dozens of readers.
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Henry Boltinoff
Henry Boltinoff
Henry Boltinoff
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Henry Boltinoff
Subject Matter
humorous
Moolah the Mystic
There! I got out of the handcuffs!
Moolah can't escape doing the dishes.
Reprinting
FlagHouse of Mystery #53 published August 1956
was [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
1
Bizarro Goes Sane!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Jerry Siegel
John Forte
John Forte
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous, superhero
Tales of the Bizarro World
Bizarro Lois; Bizarro Jr.; Bizarro Jimmy Olsen
Bizarro has to prove he's "sane" in order to get out of the Bizarro insane asylum.
Reprinting
FlagSuperman: Tales of the Bizarro World #[nn] published October 2000
as Bizarro Goes Sane! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
11
[untitled]

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
Giant Superman Annual
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
0.5
[untitled]

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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?
Subject Matter
Palisades Amusement Park
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
0.5
Superman Says... "Be a Good Citizen!"

Public Service Announcement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Jack Schiff
Sheldon Moldoff
Sheldon Moldoff
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?
Subject Matter
superhero
Superman
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Henry Boltinoff (signed)
?
Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Subject Matter
humorous
Little Pete
Pete, will you watch little Archie for me...
Pete hangs Archie on a clothesline after he falls in the fish tank.
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
0.67
Coming... Super-Attractions!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
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?
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Subject Matter
Superboy; Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen; Action Comics
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
0.33
[untitled]

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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typeset
Subject Matter
Task Force
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
[untitled]

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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typeset
Subject Matter
American Body Building Club
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Inside back cover.
[untitled]

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
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typeset
Subject Matter
Midwest Card Company
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Back cover.

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