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Issue: Adventure Comics #254
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Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
On Sale Date: 09/30/1958
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 18 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from 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 (5" x 6.75") (#491-503)
Paper Stock: glossy cover (#32-490); cardstock cover (#491-503); newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched; squarebound (#390, 416, 491-503)
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
Disclose Reprinted In7
reprinted 7 times as Content Items in other Issues.
Disclose Reprinted From1
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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Assets1
 
 
I Was a Teen-Age Superboy!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
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Subject Matter
superhero
Superboy; Jimmy Saunders; Ronnie James; Fred Gordon
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Miscellaneous
1
[untitled]

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Miscellaneous
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Sold by Honor House Products Corp.
Inside front cover.
I Was a Teen-Age Superboy

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
superhero
Krypto; Jimmy Saunders; Ronnie James; Fred Gordon; Prof Lang; Lana Lang; Ma Kent
Under a Kryptonite "spell" from Krypto, Superboy mysteriously gives different super powers to various boys in Smallville, with mixed results. Lana Lang tricks him into giving her super-speed but keeps setting herself afire!
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Miscellaneous
12.67
Story title is probably inspired by the 1957 movies "I Was a Teenage Frankenstein" and "I Was a Teenage Werewolf."
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Miscellaneous
0.33
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
humorous
And stay there until I tell you to come out!
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Miscellaneous
1
[untitled]

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
superhero
Showcase; Adam Strange
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The Menace of the Electric Man!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
superhero
Electric Man
An escaped convict finds himself immune to electric shock. During storms at sea, the "Electric Man" gathers lightning bolts to rob ships. Aquaman is helpless to stop him until he remembers a particular cargo...
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Miscellaneous
5.67
Bottom of last page has Tootsie Pop ad.
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Miscellaneous
0.33
Look to the Stars!

Public Service Announcement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
opinion, science and technology
Bob; Ted
Gosh Bob, we're lost! What do we do now?
Bob and his friends are saved from being lost in the woods because Bob knows how to find Polaris, the North Star.
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Miscellaneous
1
Appeared across a range of DC comics in November/December 1958.
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
humorous
I can't get a raise in pay from the boss.
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Miscellaneous
1
[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
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typeset
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Miscellaneous
1
Replies read like Murray Boltinoff.
The Green Arrow's Last Stand

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
superhero
Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]; Speedy [Roy Harper]; Professor Hagen; Arrowcar; Arrowplane; Brave Turtle (Medicine Man)
Green Arrow and Speedy land in a remote valley that is still occupied by Sioux Indian warriors. The conniving chief and medicine man manufacture a fake "legend" to retain power, but GA's trick arrows win the day and liberate the tribe.
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FlagThe Hundred Comic Monthly #31 published April 1959
as The Green Arrow's Last Stand [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagSuperman Annual #1961-1962 published January 1961
as The Green Arrow's Last Stand [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagSuper Adventure Album #5 published January 1976
as The Green Arrow's Last Stand [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagSuper-Team Family #9 published February 1977
as The Green Arrow's Last Stand [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagThe Green Arrow by Jack Kirby #[nn] published January 2001
as The Green Arrow's Last Stand [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagShowcase Presents: Green Arrow #1 published March 2006
as The Green Arrow's Last Stand [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagThe Jack Kirby Omnibus #1 published October 2011
as The Green Arrow's Last Stand [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
5.67
[untitled]

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Miscellaneous
0.33
[untitled]

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
non-fiction
He's duded up to go the the haymaker's jig!
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FlagDale Evans Comics #12 published July 1950
was [untitled] [Cartoon on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
0.67
[untitled]

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Miscellaneous
0.33
[untitled]

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Miscellaneous
1
[untitled]

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Miscellaneous
1
Inside back cover.
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Miscellaneous
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Back cover.

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