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Issue: My Greatest Adventure #41
Publication Date: March 1960
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Issues: #41 of 85 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: Superman DC National ComicsView Brand Images3
Indicia Publisher: National Comics Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 01/07/1960
Volume:
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 16 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age US
Paper Stock: newsprint
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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I Became the Beetle-Beast!

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Genres: science fiction
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Pages: 1
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Writer(s): ?
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Character(s): George F. Jowett (photo); John Sill (photo); Ernest Raines (photo); Tony Pascarella (photo); Paul Lange (photo); Jim Norman (photo)
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Coupon states "Jowett Institute of Body Building".
Inside front cover.
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I Was Tried by a Robot Court

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Writer(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Bart Howland; Dave; Professor Grimm
Synopsis: In the middle of the jungle, Professor Grimm has constructed an "experiment": an entire town populated by robots (and a few captive humans). Bart Howland and Dave have chanced upon the town, and are not allowed to leave. When Dave runs over a robot with his jeep, he's charged with murder and taken to court.
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In Content Item: FlagAll Favourites Comic #20 published August 1960
as I Was Tried by a Robot Court [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 9
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Superstitions About Spiders

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Genres: non-fiction
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From Content Item: FlagSensation Comics #109 published May 1952
was Superstitions About Spiders [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 0.67
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Bat-Mite Is Back Again!

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Genres: superhero
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Pages: 0.33
Disclose Notes: house ad for Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #276
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[untitled]

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Genres: humorous
First Line: For five years I've worked on this robot.
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Disclose Notes: Ad from Wilson Chemical Co., Dept. 115-16, Tyrone, Pa.
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I Tackled the Missile from Space

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Wayne Harris (writer); Tod Sheppard; Colonel Starr
Synopsis: Tod Sheppard, retired demolition expert, is called back into service when the army discovers a rocket from outer space that appears to be ticking.
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Buzzy's "Famous Books" Quiz

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Genres: humorous, non-fiction, opinion, teen
Synopsis: Guess the famous book and author from a brief description of the plot.
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Disclose Notes: published in cooperation with the National Social Welfare Assembly;
previously appeared in DC comics cover-dated January 1957
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Introducing... the Justice League of America

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Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Justice League of America
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Disclose Notes: house ad for The Brave and the Bold (DC, 1955 series) #28 [first Justice League of America]
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I Was the Space Spies' Victim

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: An astronomer tricks two space aliens into leaving for their own solar system before they can steal his secret astronomical information.
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I Became the Beetle Beast

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Professor John Townsend; Mac MacPherson; Alan Peters
Synopsis: Due to an electronics fluke that "might occur once in every fifty billion tries," a scientist's mind is transferred into a beetle, which somehow causes the beetle to grow to enormous size.
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Treasure Chest of Fun

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Disclose Notes: Ad for various novelty items.
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[untitled]

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Disclose Notes: Send 25¢ for the Stamp Collecting Outfit from Zenith Company, Dept. NG-29, 81 Willoughby Street, Brooklyn 1, N.Y.
Inside back cover.
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Disclose Notes: Send for a Big Seed Book and 48 packs of American Seeds to sell at 15 cents apiece, from American Seed Co., Dept. 11F, Lancaster, Pa.
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