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Issue: Adventure Comics #491
Publication Date: September 1982
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Issues: #491 of 472 Issues (530 Printings)
Title:
Variant: Direct Sales
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: DC [bullet]View Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 05/11/1982
Volume: 47
Pages: 100
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.95 USD
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Content Items: 11 (7 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: First digest-sized issue.

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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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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Mary Marvel; Captain Marvel, Jr.; Ibac; Superboy; Legion of Super-Heroes [Cosmic Boy; Saturn Girl; Lightning Boy [later Lightning Lad]]
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Job Number: C-946
Disclose Notes: First digest-sized issue.
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Announcing the Triumphant Return of Adventure Comics

Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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The Confederation of Hell

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Satan; Darkling; Zeus; Set (cameo); Ahriman (cameo); Cernobog (cameo); Tezcatlipoca (cameo)
Synopsis: The Marvel Family with Kid Eternity battle Ibac, Sabbac, and Darkling. Just as they defeat those villains, Master Man summons four gods of evil.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
Job Number: J-8279
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The Legion of Super-Heroes

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superboy; Legion of Super-Heroes [Cosmic Boy; Lightning Lad [as Lightning Boy]; Saturn Girl]; Jonathan Kent (cameo)
Synopsis: Three teens from the future offer Superboy membership in their super-hero club. But when Superboy fails to complete three simple tasks, the Legionnaires pretend to reject him, until they reveal that the three tasks were merely intitiation pranks which proved he is a good sport.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagAdventure Comics #247 published April 1958
was The Legion of Super-Heroes [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 12
Disclose Notes: Reprint of the first appearance of the Legion. Lightning Lad is called Lightning Boy in this story. There are several other unidentified Legionnaires in the story. The Legionnaires are not yet in their classic costumes in this story.
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Sorcerers of the Sea

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Aquaman; Mera; Aqualad; Aquagirl; Aquababy [Arthur Curry, Jr.]; Vulko
Synopsis: Mera vanishes abruptly and Aquaman begins a quest to find her.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagAquaman #40 published July 1968
was Sorcerers of the Sea [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 23
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The Canary and the Cat! Part One

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Black Canary [Dinah Drake]; Green Arrow [Oliver Queen] (image); Bertha Kane (villain, President of the Women's Resistence League); Timothy (villain)
Synopsis: Lonely because Green Arrow is off on another case, Dinah decides to seek out employment as a judo instructor...in the guise of Black Canary. She gets the job, unaware that the woman hiring her is in league with the students in her class for some unknown caper.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagAdventure Comics #418 published April 1972
was Circle of Doom [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Title taken from this story's appearance in Black Canary Archives (DC, 2001 series).
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The Man Who Couldn't Sleep!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; Sandy [Sandy Hawkins]; Felix Black; Nick Parks
Synopsis: Tormented by insomnia, Felix Black turns to a life of crime.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagAdventure Comics #80 published November 1942
was The Man Who Couldn't Sleep! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
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Prisoner of the Super-Heroes!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superboy; Legion of Super-Heroes [Cosmic Boy; Lightning Lad; Saturn Girl]; Krypto; Martha Kent; Jonathan Kent
Synopsis: The Legion returns to 20th Century to discredit Superboy and exile him from Earth.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagAdventure Comics #267 published December 1959
was Prisoner of the Super-Heroes! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 11
Disclose Notes: Reprint of the second appearance of the Legion of Super-Heroes.
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War That Shook the Universe!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: occult, superhero
Character(s): Spectre; Jim Corrigan; Azmodus; Stefan Miklos; Millicent Olcott; Paul Nevers
Synopsis: The Spectre confronts the evil Azmodus, who has taken over the body of Paul Nevers.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagShowcase #60 published January 1966
was War That Shook the Universe! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 23
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[untitled]

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): The Story Behind the Stories
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover. Levitz provides commentary on the two Legion stories reprinted in this issue.
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100 Pages of Non-Stop Action and Suspense!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superboy; Legion of Super-Heroes [Saturn Girl; Cosmic Boy; Lightning Boy]; Spectre; Black Canary; Sandman; Aquaman
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: On back cover.

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