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Issue: Adventure Comics #292
Publication Date: January 1962
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Issues: #292 of 472 Issues (530 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: Superman DC National ComicsView Brand Images3
Indicia Publisher: National Periodical Publications Inc.
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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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
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The Laughing Stock of Smallville!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superboy; Lex Luthor; Lana Lang; Martha Kent; Jonathan Kent
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Pages: 1
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Disclose Notes: Sold by Honor House Products Corp.
Inside front cover.
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Disclose Notes: Sold by Honor House Products Corp.
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The Laughing Stock of Smallville!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Luthor (origin); Krypto; Martha Kent; Jonathan Kent; Lana Lang
Synopsis: 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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In Content Item: FlagThe Best of DC #15 [Direct Sales] published August 1981
as The Laughing Stock of Smallville! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSuperboy #6/1983 published June 1983
as Superboy als Stadtclown! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 12.67
Disclose Notes: Rehash of story in Superman 101.
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Coming... Super-Attractions!

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Feature(s): Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane; Action Comics; Superboy
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Pages: 0.33
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The Secret of the Happy Pig!

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Genres: anthropomorphic, opinion
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Genres: humorous
First Line: Professor, I saw lots of lion tracks a mile north of here!
Synopsis: Goes south when he learns lion is going north.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: 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.
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Watch for the Fourth Superman Annual!

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Feature(s): Giant Superman Annual
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Bizarro Creates a Monster!

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Genres: humorous, superhero
Character(s): Bizarro Jr; Bizarro Lois; Bizarro Lana (intro); Bizarro Lucy (intro); Sapollo (intro); Bizarro-Kltpzyxm; Frankenstein movie monster
Synopsis: Handsome Bizarro movie hero viewed as monster
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In Content Item: FlagSuperman #202 published December 1967
as Bizarro Creates a Monster! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSuperman: Tales of the Bizarro World #[nn] published October 2000
as Bizarro Creates a Monster! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 11
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Another Giant Batman Collection!

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Feature(s): Giant Batman Annual
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Genres: humorous
First Line: Get out of the way!
Synopsis: Ear plugs make Ollie oblivious to danger.
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Task Force

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Disclose Notes: Sold by Helen of Toy.
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Disclose Notes: Sold by Josely Co.
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Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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Disclose Notes: Sold by Daisy Manufacturing Company.
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