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Issue: My Greatest Adventure #40
Publication Date: February 1960
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Issues: #40 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: 12/08/1959
Volume:
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 20 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Jack Schiff (editor); Murray Boltinoff (associate editor); George Kashdan (associate editor)
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from copyright registration.
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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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Assets2
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Statement of Ownership
 
 
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We Found the Ice-Age Giant!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Bob Brown
Inker(s): Bob Brown
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Ira Schnapp
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
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Pages: 1
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Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Frontier Cabin
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Hi-Power Binoculars
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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We Battled the Storm Creature

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Howard Purcell
Inker(s): Howard Purcell
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: A strange meteorite reacts with rainstorms to create a monstrous creature.
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In Content Item: FlagHaunted Tales #31 published May 1978
as We Battled the Storm Creature [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7.67
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Statement of Ownership  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.33
Disclose Notes: Statement of October 1, 1959
Owner: National Comics Publications, Inc., H. Donenfeld, J. S. Liebowitz, P. H. Sampliner, G. Donenfeld, S. U. Sampliner, F. Iger, I. Donenfeld; S. Iger, A. Donenfeld, J. S. Liebowitz and A.S. Herzog as trustees for I. Donenfeld and S. Donenfeld, I. Rappaport and A. S. Herzog as trustees for L. Liebowitz and J. H. Liebowitz, H. Donenfeld Foundation, Inc., all at 575 Lexington Avenue, New York 22, N.Y.
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Meteor Showers

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Mort Drucker
Penciller(s): Mort Drucker
Inker(s): Mort Drucker
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Mort Drucker
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
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From Content Item: FlagStrange Adventures #16 published January 1952
was Meteor Showers [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 0.5
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Continental Schools, Inc.
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Pages: 0.5
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Superboy Says: "It's Fun to Help Others!"

Public Service Announcement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Jack Schiff
Penciller(s): Curt Swan
Inker(s): Stan Kaye
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Ira Schnapp
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Superboy
Character(s): Superboy
Synopsis: Superboy shows some children how they can be useful as volunteers in many places.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: published in cooperation with the National Social Welfare Assembly
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Introducing... the Justice League of America

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Mike Sekowsky
Inker(s): Murphy Anderson
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Ira Schnapp
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Justice League of America
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: house ad for The Brave and the Bold (DC, 1956 series) #28 [first Justice League of America], on sale December 29
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I Led the Sinister Safari

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): George Roussos
Inker(s): George Roussos
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Stan Starkman
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: A missing scientist has been captured by aliens who want his latest invention for their own evil purposes, and he pretends to join them, sacrificing his life to defeat them.
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Pages: 8.67
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Your Passport to Amazing Adventures!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Tales of the Unexpected; House of Mystery; Strange Adventures
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Pages: 0.33
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Henry Boltinoff
Penciller(s): Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Inker(s): Henry Boltinoff
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Henry Boltinoff
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Peter Puptent, Explorer
Character(s): Peter Puptent
First Line: Look at this rare bone I dug up!
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Pages: 1
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Super Speed Was My Business

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Jack Miller
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: drama
Synopsis: A race car driver spots a dangerous situation along the course and sacrifices his lead to save the lives of the drivers behind him.
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Pages: 1
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We Found the Ice-Age Giant

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Ruben Moreira (signed)
Inker(s): Ruben Moreira
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Stan Starkman
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: Excavation for a new railroad line revives a giant caveman that was frozen in ice for thousands of years, and revives his nemesis as well -- a giant woolly mammoth!
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Pages: 7.67
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Three Exciting New Adventures

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Sheldon Moldoff
Inker(s): Sheldon Moldoff
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Ira Schnapp
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Batman and Robin
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Pages: 0.33
Disclose Notes: house ad for Batman (DC, 1940 series) #129
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Aircraft Carrier
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Pages: 0.5
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): 150 Civil War Soldiers
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Stephens Credit Sales
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Pages: 1
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Jowett Institute of Body Building
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Wilson Chemical Co.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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