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Issue: Adventure Comics #238
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Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
On Sale Date: 05/28/1957
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 16 (6 stories, 1 cover)
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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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Cover, Front
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Title Page
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The Secret Past of Superboy's Father!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Subject Matter
superhero
Kan-Tu
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Miscellaneous
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Draw Me

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Art Instruction, Inc.
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Inside front cover.
The Secret Past of Superboy's Father

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superhero
Kan-Tu [Doc Holton] (villain)
Goodbye, my young son!
Superboy dreams that his father stole his rocket design from another Kryptonian scientist.
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For the Best in Comics Entertainment

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Binky Shows "How to Make New Friends!"

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Subject Matter
informational, opinion, teen
Binky; Allergy; Bob; Pete
Binky suggests Allergy make friends with a new kid, Bob, but Pete does instead and then gets Allergy and the rest of the gang interested.
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[untitled]

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Zenith Company
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[untitled]

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childrens, humorous
Mother, where were you born?
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The Floating Doom

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Subject Matter
superhero
unnamed pirates (villains)
Get off those mines, my friends -- or you'll be blown to bits!
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FlagBig Boy #19 published April 1958
as Le Destin flottant [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
6
[untitled]

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humorous
Good evening, is Carol in?
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[untitled]

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Part-Time Explorers

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The Perils of the Polka-Dot Archer

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Subject Matter
superhero
The Polka-Dot Archer
Meet the zaniest bowman of all times -- a man of a million shafts and a million laughs!
The Polka Dot Archer is a clown who mimics Green Arrow.
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FlagBig Boy #17 published February 1958
as Les Francs Archers et le clown Polka [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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[untitled]

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Subject Matter
humorous
Nice day for hunting!
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1
[untitled]

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1
[untitled]

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Inside back cover.
Mickey Mantle Goes to Bat for the "Unlucky Fishermen"

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Back cover.

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