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Issue: Adventure Comics #283
Publication Date: April 1961
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Issues: #283 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: 02/28/1961
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 14 (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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reprinted 3 times as Content Items in other Issues.
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The Phantom Superboy!

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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Martha Kent; Jonathan Kent; Superboy
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Pages: 1
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Disclose Notes: Sold by Honor House Products Corp.
Inside front cover.
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The Phantom Superboy

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superboy; Krypto; Lana Lang; Clark Kent robot; Martha Kent; Jonathan Kent; Phantom Zone (intro); General Zod (intro, in flashback); Dr. Xadu (intro, in flashback)
Synopsis: After Professor Lang finds a box of Kryptonian weapons, Superboy is accidentally projected into the Phantom Zone, the place where Kryptonian criminals were exiled. But using mental telepathy he activates an electric typewriter and tells Pa Kent how to free him.
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In Content Item: FlagSuperboy #165 published May 1970
as The Phantom Superboy [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSuperman #18/1970 published September 1970
as Das Super-Phantom [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSuperman: Tales from the Phantom Zone #[nn] published August 2009
as The Phantom Superboy [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 13.67
Disclose Notes: Based in part on the second Superman movie serial from 1950.
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Coming... Super-Attractions!

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Feature(s): Superman; Action Comics; Superboy
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Pages: 0.33
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Genres: humorous
First Line: This spot looks fine!
Synopsis: Shorty has good luck "prospecting" and finds a site for a hot dog stand.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Letters from Frederick J. Lulling, Ellen McCune, Gary Posner, Henry Mayer, Donald Walker, Michael Leigh Brown, Kenneth Landgraf, and Nancy Smith; includes statement that "Smallville, U.S.A. is a suburb in an eastern state of the United States"(i.e., not Kansas).
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Here It Is

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Feature(s): Justice League of America
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A Salute to Our American Indians!

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Genres: informational, opinion
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The Lion with the Double Identity!

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Genres: jungle, superhero
Character(s): Janu; The Golden Lion (intro); Tim Tully (intro)
Synopsis: Congorilla-like lion
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Pages: 12
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Genres: humorous
First Line: I'm going over to the schoolyard!
Synopsis: Parents hide birthday present in Pete's messy closet.
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Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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