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Issue: Superman Adventure Book #1957-8
Publication Date: January 1957
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Issues: #1957-8 of 3 Issues
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Publisher: FlagAtlas Publishing
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Indicia Publisher: Atlas Publishing & Distributing Co. Ltd.
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Pages: 164
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Price: 66.0 pence GBQ 0-5-6
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Content Items: 37 (26 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Hardcover
Color: colour cover; black and white interior
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Binding: hardcover; squarebound
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The Superman of To-Morrow

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Synopsis: Superman stands in a futuristic cityscape.
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First Line: This book belongs to:--
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First Line: Featuring brand new exploits of the world's greatest adventure character
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The Clue from Krypton

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Floyd Fowler
First Line: It happened at last... someone knows the secret identity of Superman! Never before has the Man of Steel faced such a dilemma...
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First Line: Why do some folks consider black cats... ill omens?
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First Line: When was the first air express delivery made?
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The New Superman

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Diamond Dave Delaney
First Line: Earth and air, fire and water, are filled with dangers for ordinary men... but not for Superman! As everybody knows, only one element...
Synopsis: Superman gains an immunity to Kryptonite, but this is replaced by a vulnerability to diamonds.
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Genres: humorous, teen
First Line: Ice skating is a lot of fun!
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First Line: A football composed of the same material as that of an average-type star would weigh 1000 pounds -- while a baseball formed of the...
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The Million-Pound Mistake

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Character(s): Marian Colby (flashback); Soapy Martin
First Line: I sure got the Daily Planet in a mess -- predicting a comet when there really wasn't one! But that flaming log in his hands...
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The Midget Menace

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First Line: Mercury -- the smallest planet in the solar system -- is about the same size as Australia -- the smallest continent on Earth...
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I Shoot with a Camera!

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Character(s): Joe; Mr. Marlin
First Line: I've been called the strangest hunter that ever entered the jungle, for I have never yet killed any big game! The reason is...
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Superman Marries Lois Lane!

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First Line: You are hereby invited to attend the most sensational wedding of all time! The bride will be the lovely Miss Lois Lane!...
Synopsis: Lois Lane has a dream of her potential married life with Superman.
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Amazing Newspapers!

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First Line: One of the most prized editions of any newspaper is the January 4, 1800 Ulster County Gazette (Kingson, New York)...
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First Line: If you're a Superman fan you must follow his adventures as Superboy!
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Genres: humorous
First Line: Business is bad! I've got to cut expenses down!
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The Meek Man's Club

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Character(s): Bunny DeKay; Metropolis Meek Man's Club members
First Line: The mild-mannered exterior which Clark Kent presents to the world conceals the greatest secret of all time... Superman's identity!...
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The Rainbow Doom

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First Line: How would you feel if everything you approached turned to strange, glinting glass, causing everyone to run from you in fear?...
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First Line: I'm going to get a job for myself!
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Character(s): Bonny
First Line: That's Leopold, I'll bet!
Synopsis: Leopold calls Bonny on the phone with a very important question.
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The Superman of Tomorrow

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Character(s): Dr. Dorr; Lyra Lee; Superman of 2956 [Craig King]; Dr. Vail; Parri Wyte
First Line: From the future, 1,000 years from now, comes a strange, urgent message -- a message from the "Superman" of that era!...
Synopsis: Craig King uses scientific gadgets in 2956 to duplicate Superman's powers, but now he needs help to catch scientific bandits, so he beams a message across time to the real Superman.
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Land Ho!

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First Line: To most seamen there comes a time when the sight of land spells the difference between life and death!
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Superman for Sale

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Character(s): Barclay; Henry Drebbin; Edward Jorgens; Paul Quillan (villain, introduction)
First Line: In the past, the Man of Steel has always arrested wanted criminals without ever claiming the rewards offered for their capture!...
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The Camera Club Scoops!

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Character(s): The Candid Camera Club [Charlie]; The Midnite Gang
First Line: When the scoop-happy shutter-bugs of the Candid Camera Club compete against each other for the best possible action...
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Character(s): Marcia
First Line: Jerry! I caught you -- bringing flowers backstage! I'm flas I know what you are now -- a Stage-Door Johnny!
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First Line: The more active this is... the smaller it becomes!
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Calling Doctor Superman!

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Character(s): Mrs. Jones; Mrs. Jones' children; John Kay; Dr. Henry Harris; Vic Vorden; Vorden's gang
First Line: You've saved a life, Superman! There's a very sick man in that farm-house, and I don't know how I'd have reached him with this bridge caved in!
Synopsis: Superman averts a cyclone, which is about to destroy the country village of Farmdale. He spies a car on the road, and its driver identifies himself as Doctor Henry Harris, en route to an accident victim. Superman airlifts the car to his destination, then acts as an X-ray machine while the doctor operates on the patient.
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First Line: Say, Vic, do you have the correct time?
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Jungle Encounter

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Character(s): Theodore Waldeck
First Line: As he entered the clearing, African explorer Theodore Waldeck and his gun-bearer spied a sight feared by most hunters...
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Lois Lane, Policewoman!

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Character(s): Cracker Moreau; Silver Skene
First Line: What's this?... Clark Kent and Lois Lane in police uniforms? No, your eyes aren't deceiving you -- for a strange assignment has forced...
Synopsis: Lois and Clark join the Metropolis Police Department to get an insider's perspective. While Lois is more than up to the task, bumbling Clark doesn't seem able to handle even the simplest of assignments.
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First Line: That hill over there is our objective, men --
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The Stolen 'S' Shirts

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Character(s): "Swifty" Smith; Stanley Stark; The Sultan
First Line: S stands for Superman -- but it also stands for sinister! And sinister indeed is the series of seemingly senseless crimes that strike Metropolis!...
Synopsis: Stanley Stark gets two crooks to steal Superman’s shirt for him in an attempt to analyze and duplicate the invulnerable material composing it, but Superman regains his shirt and nabs Stark and his stooges.
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First Line: Just what I need -- an afternoon of rest!
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Edward C. Pickering

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Character(s): Edward C. Pickering
First Line: While director of the Harvard College Observatory (1876-1919), PIckering invented the Meridian Photometer, with which he...
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The Man Who Was Mightier Than Superman

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First Line: You've seen Superman span space -- leaping from planet to planet with the ease of a lad playing leap-frog, you've seen his steel-muscled strength...
Synopsis: A man who seems to have greater powers than Superman appears in Metropolis, to the Man of Steel’s surprise.
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