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Issue: Adventure Comics #243
Publication Date: December 1957
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Issues: #243 of 472 Issues (530 Printings)
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: 10/29/1957
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 15 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from copyright registration.
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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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The Super-Toys from Krypton!

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Genres: superhero
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Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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The Super-Toys from Krypton

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Jor-El; Lara (flashback); Lana Lang
Synopsis: A box of toys from Krypton crashes on Earth and causes all sorts of trouble for Superboy.
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Pages: 12
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The One and Only Superman

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman; Batman; Robin; Jimmy Olsen
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Includes covers repros of World's Finest Comics; Superman; Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen; and Action Comics for November or December.
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Aquaman's Amazing Bets

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Topo
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Pages: 6
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Feature(s): Gilbert Science Toys
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: On the two pages between page 2 and page 3 of the previous story sequence.
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The First Gentleman Champion

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Genres: biography, non-fiction
Character(s): Gentleman Jim Corbett
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Genres: humorous
First Line: I can do great things for your circus...
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The Million-Dollar Arrows

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Genres: superhero
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In Content Item: FlagBatman #93 [1' Cover Price] published February 1958
as The Million-Pound Arrows [Story on Interior Page(s)]retitled
In Content Item: FlagBig Boy #20 published May 1958
as Des flèches d'un million de dollars [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: First appearance of the Arrow-copter?
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The Trick Is to Treat All the World's Children!

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Genres: informational, opinion, teen
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Pages: 1
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Yogi Berra Homers in the 9th - Wins Big Game!

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Disclose Notes: Sold by Wilson Chemical Co.
Inside back cover.
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Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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