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Issue: Adventure Comics #292
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Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
On Sale Date: 11/30/1961
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.12 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 18 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Arrival date: 30 November 1962
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Disclose Format
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:  
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
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Title Page
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The Laughing Stock of Smallville!

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superhero
Superboy; Lex Luthor; Lana Lang; Martha Kent; Jonathan Kent
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[untitled]

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Sold by Honor House Products Corp.
Inside front cover.
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The Laughing Stock of Smallville!

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superhero
Luthor (origin); Krypto; Martha Kent; Jonathan Kent; Lana Lang
Luthor pulls a series of stunts designed to make Superboy look ridiculous. Origin explains how Luthor lost his hair and began to hate Superboy.
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FlagThe Best of DC #15 [Direct Sales] published August 1981
as The Laughing Stock of Smallville! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagSuperboy #6/1983 published June 1983
as Superboy als Stadtclown! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
12.67
Rehash of story in Superman 101.
Coming... Super-Attractions!

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Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane; Action Comics; Superboy
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The Secret of the Happy Pig!

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anthropomorphic, opinion
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[untitled]

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Subject Matter
humorous
Professor, I saw lots of lion tracks a mile north of here!
Goes south when he learns lion is going north.
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Letters from Ray Foushee, Tommie G. Gambill, Martin Katz, Ethel Coombs, plus "bits of Bizarro business from Jim Linville, Marie Sheehan, Ann Burson, Michael Graham, George Kimble, Bruce Clouette, Frank Giammarino, Andy Kell, David Weinberger, Charles Wolff, Will Sessione, Gary Malkin, E. Nelson Bridwell ("On the Bizarro World, workers strike for less pay and longer hours"), Michael Ross, Ann Wiser, Gary Bell, Bill Weber, Brian Murchison, James Duffy, Kent Jones, Wally Ogden, Jr., Larry C. Hoop, Paul Eastman, Jr., Walter Lamia, Karen Kihm, and John McGeehan.
Watch for the Fourth Superman Annual!

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Giant Superman Annual
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Bizarro Creates a Monster!

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Subject Matter
humorous, superhero
Bizarro Jr; Bizarro Lois; Bizarro Lana (intro); Bizarro Lucy (intro); Sapollo (intro); Bizarro-Kltpzyxm; Frankenstein movie monster
Handsome Bizarro movie hero viewed as monster
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FlagSuperman #202 published December 1967
as Bizarro Creates a Monster! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagSuperman: Tales of the Bizarro World #[nn] published October 2000
as Bizarro Creates a Monster! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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Another Giant Batman Collection!

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Giant Batman Annual
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1
[untitled]

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humorous
Get out of the way!
Ear plugs make Ollie oblivious to danger.
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1
Task Force

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Sold by Helen of Toy.
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Sold by Josely Co.
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Inside back cover.
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Sold by Daisy Manufacturing Company.
Back cover.

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