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Issue: Adventure Comics #289
Publication Date: October 1961
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Issues: #289 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: 08/31/1961
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 19 (3 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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Clark Kent's Super-Father!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Ma Kent; Pa Kent
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Test Your Talent

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Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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Clark Kent's Super-Father!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Ma Kent; Pa Kent; Superboy robots; Phantom Zone inhabitants [Jax-Ur (intro); three unnamed prisoners]
Synopsis: Jax-Ur poses as Super-Dad.
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In Content Item: FlagSuperboy #185 published May 1972
as Clark Kent's Super-Father! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagDC 100-Page Super Spectacular #DC-12 published May 1972
as Clark Kent's Super-Father [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSuperman #17/1972 published August 1972
as Clark Kents Supervater [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 12.67
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Tootsie Roll Makes History!

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Coming... Super-Attractions!

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Feature(s): Superboy; Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen; Action Comics
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First Line: Be my guest at Palisades Amusement Park...
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[untitled]

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First Line: Collect coins.. the hobby road to riches
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Disclose Notes: Ad for Centre Coin Company.
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204 Revolutionary War Soldiers

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[untitled]

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Disclose Notes: Letters from Tom Knutson, Jeff Putnam, Dale Dellutir, Louis B. Cohen, Robert Dingus, Darrell Beffert, Leonard Belter, James Joska, and Ethel Greene.
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[untitled]

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Genres: humorous
First Line: What a daring thing!
Synopsis: Tricksy matches mystic on a bed of nails but uses a suit of armor.
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[untitled]

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First Line: Ah'm a fudge judge!
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Bizarro's Amazing Buddies!

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Genres: humorous, superhero
Feature(s): Tales of the Bizarro World
Character(s): Titano; Bizarro Lois; Frankenstein; King Kong (poster)
Synopsis: Appears before Mary Shelley and inspires her classic novel. Meets Titano but the people of Bizarro World believe he stole the idea from the King Kong movie.
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In Content Item: FlagSuperman #202 published December 1967
as Bizarro's Amazing Buddies! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSuperman: Tales of the Bizarro World #[nn] published October 2000
as Bizarro's Amazing Buddies! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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[untitled]

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First Line: Wow'wee! That's for me...
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[untitled]

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Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Giant Superman Annual
First Line: See the many fantastic faces of Superman...
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[untitled]

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Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Giant Batman Annual
First Line: The inside stories of Batman and Robin's top secrets...
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Frontier Cabin

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150 Civil War Soldiers!

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Disclose Notes: Sold by Josely Co.
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[untitled]

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First Line: Skinny or fat, 15, 20, 30 or 40 years of age...
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Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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[untitled]

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First Line: If you know just 20 people...
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Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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