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Issue: Adventure Comics #517
Publication Date: October 2010
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Issues: #517 of 27 Issues (56 Printings)
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Variant: Direct Sales
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: DC [swirl]View Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: DC Comics
On Sale Date: 08/11/2010
Volume: none
Pages: 44
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: 76194128102551711
Price: $3.99 USD
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Content Items: 3 (2 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Brian Cunningham (Editor); Sean Ryan (Associate Editor)
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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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Sparks Fly!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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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In Content Item: FlagSuperboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes: The Early Years #[nn] published July 2011
as [untitled] [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 1
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Saturn Rising

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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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In Content Item: FlagSuperboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes: The Early Years #[nn] published July 2011
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Pages: 20
Disclose 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.
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Nucleus, Part 2: Atom Strange

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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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