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Issue: Adventure Comics #517

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Publication Date: October 2010

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Issues: #517 of 27 Issues (56 Printings)

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Variant: Newsstand

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Publisher: Flag

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Indicia Publisher: DC Comics

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Volume: none

Pages: 44

ISBN:

UPC/EAN: 07099232425517

Price: $3.99 CAD
$3.99 USD

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Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
3 (2 stories, 1 cover) from base issue

Editor(s): Brian Cunningham (Editor); Sean Ryan (Associate Editor)

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color

Dimensions: standard Modern Age U.S.

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Binding: saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: was ongoing series

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Adventure Comics #517 [Direct Sales]

Adventure Comics #517 [Newsstand]

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Content Items (3 total)

Sparks Fly!

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Credits

Penciller(s): Scott Clark

Inker(s): David Beaty

Colorist(s): Hi-Fi

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Legion of Super-Heroes; The Atom

Character(s): Legion of Super-Heroes [Cosmic Boy; Saturn Girl; Lightning Lad]; The Atom [Ray Palmer] (inset)

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Pages: 1

Saturn Rising

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): Paul Levitz

Penciller(s): Kevin Sharpe

Inker(s): Marlo Alquiza

Colorist(s): Blond

Letterer(s): Travis Lanham

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Legion of Super-Heroes

Character(s): Legion of Super-Heroes [Cosmic Boy; Saturn Girl; Lightning Lad]; Brainiac 5; Sgt. Esquivel; Zaryan (behind the scenes); Lt. Zendak (off-panel); Superboy [Clark Kent] (hologram)

Synopsis: Back when the Legion consisted of just the founders, the three heroes work with the Science Police to stop Zaryan from raiding robot manufacturers. Though all three show their inexperience, Saturn Girl decides she has to work to hold her own in physical confrontations alongside the boys. After the mission ends in tragedy and after an indiscretion, Saturn Girl makes two more decisions that will have an impact on her future.

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Pages: 20

Notes: The Legion confronted Zaryan in Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #304. Lt. Zendak will rise to the rank of Chief by the time of The Legion of Super-Heroes Annual (DC, 1982 series) #1.

Nucleus, Part 2: Atom Strange

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): Jeff Lemire

Penciller(s): Mahmud Asrar

Inker(s): John Dell

Colorist(s): Pete Pantazis

Letterer(s): Sal Cipriano

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): The Atom

Character(s): The Atom [Ray Palmer]; The Calculator; Oracle; David Palmer; Jack Palmer; Alphaeus Hyatt; Batgirl [Stephanie Brown] (on screen)

Synopsis: To escape the pathogens in the Calculator's lair, the Atom grabs the villain and heads back to Oracle who has an antidote prepared. Cornered, the Calculator tells Ray that he was hired by the Colony, but that that is all he knows. Meanwhile, Professor Hyatt is visited, via the phone line, by men looking for the white dwarf meteor and wearing the same ant symbol found in Ray's trashed lab.

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Pages: 11