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Issue: Adventure Comics #305
Publication Date: February 1963
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Issues: #305 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 Periodical Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 12/27/1962
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.12 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 16 (3 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from ad in Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane #39 and 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
Format Notes:  
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reprinted 5 times as Content Items in other Issues.
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Title Page
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Assets2
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Statement of Ownership
 
 
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Clark Kent, He-Man!

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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Clark Kent; Jonathan Kent; Martha Kent
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Pages: 1
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Letterer(s): typeset
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First Line: Amazing book about prehistoric animals
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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Clark Kent, He-Man!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superboy [also appears as Clark Kent]; Jonathan Kent; Martha Kent; Lana Lang; Pete Ross; Chameleon Boy; Joe Moss; Bud Corwin; Jeff Craig
Synopsis: The Kents move to Rail City, so Clark won't have to act timid and meek.
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Pages: 14
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[untitled]

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Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Action Comics; Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane; Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen
First Line: Coming... super-attractions!
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Pages: 0.5
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207 Stamps

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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
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Inker(s): ? (logo illustration)
Colorist(s): ? (logo illustration)
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Letters submitted by Paul Gambaccini, Ron Wenkart, Lee A. Litch, Doug Seelye, Susan Kaghan, Tilson van Broeck, Marie Rogers, Wayne Stodge, and Abraham Lobsenz.
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Genres: sports
Feature(s): The Brave and the Bold; Strange Sports Stories
First Line: Strange Sports Stories is the most exciting...
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: house ad for The Brave and the Bold (DC 1955 series) #46
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Health Myths Debunked!

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Genres: informational, opinion
Synopsis: How to treat frostbite, a black eye, and does cutting your hair make it grow faster?
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Published in cooperation with the National Social Welfare Assembly.
Later appears in DC comics cover-dated May 1966.
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The Secret of the Mystery Legionnaire!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Legion of Super-Heroes [Sun Boy; Shrinking Violet; Bouncing Boy; Cosmic Boy; Mon-El [as Marvel Lad, the Legionnaire Lemon]; Saturn Girl; Cosmic Boy; Lightning Lad; Colossal Boy; Brainiac 5; Superboy (in flashback)]
Synopsis: In tryouts to replace the fallen Lightning Lad, Marvel Lad wows the Legionnaires, who reveals he is Mon-El, now cured by Brainiac 5.
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In Content Item: FlagAdventure Comics #403 published March 1971
as The Secret of the Mystery Legionnaire! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagAll Star Adventure Comic #91 published February 1975
as The Secret of the Mystery Legionnaire! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagAdventure Comics #500 [Direct Sales] published June 1983
as The Secret of the Mystery Legionnaire! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Legion of Super-Heroes Archives #1 [1st Printing] published January 1991
as The Secret of the Mystery Legionnaire [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagShowcase Presents: Legion of Super-Heroes #1 published June 2007
as The Secret of the Mystery Legionnaire! [Story on Interior Page(s)]black and white
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 11.67
Disclose Notes: "Super-Monsters" app; Mon-El leaves Phantom Zone permanently; a newspaper headline announces the re-election of John F. Kennedy
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First Line: Your eyes may play tricks.... but not your taste!
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Pages: 0.33
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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Casey the Cop
First Line: Sarge, I caught 'Fingers' Freddie...
Synopsis: Casey puts boxing gloves on a criminal who's handcuffed so the prisoner can't pick the lock on the handcuffs.
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Pages: 0.67
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Statement of Ownership  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 0.33
Disclose Notes: Statement of October 1, 1962
Average number of copies sold during preceding 12 months (total paid circulation): 415,000
Owners: National Periodical Publications, Inc., Harry Donenfeld; Irwin Donenfeld; Sonia Iger; J.S. Liebowitz; P.H. Sampliner, S.U. Sampliner, Harry Donenfeld Foundation, Inc., all at 575 Lexington Avenue, New York 22, N.Y.
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100 Toy Soldiers $1.25

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Sold by Josely Company.
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150 Civil War Soldiers!

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Disclose Notes: Sold by Josely Company.
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First Line: Skinny or fat, 15, 20, 30 or 40 years of age...
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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104 Kings' Knights

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Sold by Josely Company.
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