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Issue: Adventure Comics #499

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Publication Date: May 1983

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Issues: #499 of 472 Issues (530 Printings)

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Variant: CA Cover Price

Rating: [no rating]

Publisher: Flag

Brand:

Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.

On Sale Date: 02/03/1983

Volume: 48

Pages: 100

ISBN:

UPC/EAN: 0709893170905

Price: $1.50 CAD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
12 (8 stories, 1 cover) from base issue

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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 #499 [Direct Sales]

Adventure Comics #499 [CA Cover Price]

Adventure Comics #499 [Newsstand]

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Content Items (12 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Meglaro

First Line: Who is the Legion's traitor?

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Pages: 1

Job Number: C-105

Notes: Brown-haired Legionnaire head does not match any characters in the interior story; possibly a miscolored Brainiac 5 or Lightning Lad.

Adventure Comics Contents

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

Credits

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Letterer(s): typeset

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Pages: 1

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

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Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Dimitri Dervish; Ninotchka

First Line: What in blazes happened here, Plas? This place looks like it was hit by a tornado!

Synopsis: Plas fights the triple-jointed murdering ballet dancer Dimitri Dervish.

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Pages: 10

The Fantastic Spy!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Dr. Landro; Meglaro

First Line: Saturn Girl... I have information that one of us Legionnaires is a... traitor! I order you to read our minds with your super thought-power, and name the guilty spy!

Synopsis: New Legionnaire Matter-Eater Lad is accused of being a traitor.

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Pages: 12

A Kingdom to Re-Build

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Narkran

Synopsis: The Aqua-family is reunited in Atlantis and Narkran is overthrown.

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Pages: 15

The Talking Tiger

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

First Line: Pardon me, Mister! Have you seen a tiger around here anywhere?

Synopsis: Tawky Tawny leaves his jungle home for the big city, where he meets Captain Marvel.

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Pages: 9

The Villain from Valhalla!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Police Chief Haines; Thor [Fairy Tales Fenton]

First Line: From the misty caverns of the past rises Thor, ancient god of thunder...

Synopsis: A former Professor of Metallurgy, who has invented clothing of lucite that is bullet-proof, disguises himself and his men as ancient Vikings to commit crimes.

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Pages: 10

The Stolen Super-Powers!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Commander Loring

First Line: Saturn Girl has always been a very sweet girl who happens to be gifted with super thought-casting power.

Synopsis: Saturn Girl steals the Legionnaires' super powers so she can sacrifice herself fighting Zaryan the Conqueror, but Lightning Lad dies instead.

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Pages: 11

Notes: Death of Lightning Lad. Saturn Girl elected Legion leader.

The Man in the Moon

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Doc Quartz

First Line: Okay, Captain Marvel! Put in the eye!

Synopsis: Captain Marvel follows Doc Quartz to the moon, where the crazy scientist is testing some new inventions.

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Pages: 6

Pilgrims of Peril!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: occult, superhero

Character(s): Nawor

First Line: Ashcan Alley in the Old Quarter of Gateway City -- a passerby's face turns ashen as...

Synopsis: The Spectre battles the demon Nawor in another dimension while back on Earth Jim Corrigan faces the demon's followers -- a band of pilgrims raised from the dead!

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Pages: 23

The Story Behind the Stories

Text Article on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

First Line: Our chronological reprinting of the early adventures of the Legion heats up with two Jerry Siegel-John Forte collaborations...

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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Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Dimitri Dervish; Narkran; Thor

First Line: Even the Spectre cannot cope with "The Pilgrims of Peril"!

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Pages: 1

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