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Issue: Adventure Comics #493

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Publication Date: November 1982

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Issues: #493 of 472 Issues (530 Printings)

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Variant: Newsstand

Rating: [no rating]

Publisher: Flag

Brand:

Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.

On Sale Date: 08/05/1982

Volume: 47

Pages: 100

ISBN:

UPC/EAN: 0709893170911

Price: $1.25 USD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
12 (7 stories, 1 cover) from base issue

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Notes: On-sale date from The Comic Reader #203.

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Format

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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Adventure Comics #493 [Direct Sales]

Adventure Comics #493 [CA Cover Price]

Adventure Comics #493 [Newsstand]

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Content Items (12 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

First Line: Presenting... the triumphant return of... the Challengers of the Unknown!

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Pages: 1

Job Number: C-948

Presenting Another Sensational Issue of Adventure Comics

Table of Contents on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Letterer(s): typeset

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Pages: 1

Notes: Inside front cover.
Includes indicia at bottom of page.

When Destiny Calls!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Ted Skinner; Betty Timmons

First Line: There is a line most people will not cross -- a line which marks the boundary between the safe and familiar and those horrors that we fear!

Synopsis: Origin story retold.

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Pages: 9

Notes: Story is "Dedicated to the power and majesty of Jack Kirby."

Lana Lang and the Legion of Super-Heroes!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Zynthia; Fryd Kallor (flashback); Mira Kallor (flashback); Janet (on movie screen)

First Line: Holy cow! You want me to patrol Xanthu for you, Star Boy?

Synopsis: Superboy and Lana meet Star Boy, a new Legion recruit.

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Pages: 13

Notes: Lightning Lad is still referred to as Lightning Boy in this story. Star Boy's powers similar (not identical) to Superboy's; story is partially rewritten from Adventure #195 (December 1953).

Is This My Foe?..

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Narkran; Storm (a seahorse)

First Line: Far from the kingdom of Atlantis... continuing the search for Mera, his captured queen... Aquaman nears the colony of the savage Marzons...

Synopsis: Aquaman encounters his old foe Black Manta and wonders if the villain is behind Mera's abduction.

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Pages: 23

A Nightmare Called Gorgonus

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: fantasy, occult, superhero

Character(s): Jeff Sloane; Gorgonus

First Line: Night has set uncomfortably about the shingled shoulders of the proud old Edison Theater...

Synopsis: Gorgonus returns to battle Zatanna.

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Pages: 5

Supergirl's Three Super Girl-Friends!

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Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

First Line: Hi, Supergirl!

Synopsis: Supergirl and Brainiac 5 become the newest members of the Legion of Super-Heroes.

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Pages: 12

Captain Marvel and the Twisted Powers

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Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Joe Bloe; Hephaestus

First Line: Holy moley! There's something wrong here -- I'm supposed to do the fighting, not Billy!

Synopsis: Captain Marvel's powers have vanished, but Billy seems to have them.

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Pages: 9

And Now a Word from Our Library...

Text Article on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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First Line: Would you believe ADVENTURE #491 has only been on sale a week, and we're already getting mail trumpeting the return of comicdom's oldest title?

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Pages: 1

Notes: Original issue numbers and dates for the reprinted stories in the last three issues, Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #491-493.

The Ghost of Ace Chance!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: fantasy, occult, superhero

First Line: Ace Chance was a gambler, a cheat, a con man -- and a loser!

Synopsis: The villainous ghost of Ace Chance occupies the body of Jim Corrigan - shutting the Spectre out.

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Pages: 24

The Story Behind the Stories

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First Line: Our chronological reprinting of the adventures of the Legion of Super-Heroes rolls on this month with their fifth and sixth appearances.

Synopsis: Paul Levitz provides commentary on the two Legion stories reprinted in this issue.

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Pages: 1

Notes: Inside back cover.

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Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Gorgonus; Ace Chance

First Line: Aquaman face-to-face with his greatest foe: Black Manta!

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Pages: 1

Notes: Previews of the stories in the issue.
Back cover.