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Issue: Adventure Comics #497
Publication Date: March 1983
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Issues: #497 of 472 Issues (530 Printings)
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Variant: Direct Sales
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: DC [bullet]View Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 11/16/1982
Volume: 48
Pages: 100
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $1.50 CAD
$1.25 USD
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Content Items: 10 (6 stories, 1 cover)
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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
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Challengers of the Unknown [Red Ryan; Rocky Davis; Prof Haley; Ace Morgan]; Superboy; Ultra Boy
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Job Number: C-103
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Adventure Comics Contents

Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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All Together Now!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Challengers of the Unknown [Ace Morgan; Rocky Davis; Prof Haley; Red Ryan]
Synopsis: 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!"
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Pages: 9
Disclose Notes: An original adventure that finishes their expanded origin from Showcase 6 and Challengers of the Unknown 31. More Challs stories were planned for Adventure Comics Digest, but they were bumped out by Legion reprints. The only finished unused story became part of DC Comics Presents 84.
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The Boy with Ultra-Powers!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): 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
Synopsis: Ultra Boy must discover Superboy's secret identity as an initiation test for the Legion.
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From Content Item: FlagSuperboy #98 published July 1962
was The Boy with Ultra-Powers! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 13
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The Explanation!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Aquaman; Mera; Vulko; Narkran; Aquagirl; Aqualad (cameo flashback); Aquababy (cameo flashback)
Synopsis: 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.
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From Content Item: FlagAquaman #46 published July 1969
was The Explanation! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 23
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The Mighty Marvels Join Forces!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): 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
Synopsis: The Marvel Family unite to battle the evil Black Adam.
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From Content Item: FlagThe Marvel Family #1 published December 1945
was The Mighty Marvels Join Forces! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 15
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The Face Behind the Lead Mask!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): 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
Synopsis: 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.
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From Content Item: FlagAdventure Comics #300 published September 1962
was The Face Behind the Lead Mask! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 12
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Stop That Kid... Before He Wrecks the World!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: occult, superhero
Character(s): Spectre; Jim Corrigan; Hamilton Benedict
Synopsis: An evil force invades the body of young Hamilton Benedict, giving him supernatural powers to battle the Spectre.
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From Content Item: FlagThe Spectre #4 published May 1968
was Stop That Kid.. Before He Wrecks The World! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 24
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Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): The Story Behind the Stories
Synopsis: Discussion of the Legion stories reprinted in the issue.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): 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
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover. Previews of the stories in the issue.

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