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Issue: Adventure Comics #502
Publication Date: August 1983
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Issues: #502 of 472 Issues (530 Printings)
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Variant: Direct Sales
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: DC [bullet]View Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 04/12/1983
Volume: 48
Pages: 100
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $1.50 CAD
$1.25 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 13 (9 stories, 1 cover)
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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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Dream Girl -- Mystic or Monster?

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Legion of Super-Heroes [Dream Girl; Sun Boy; Saturn Girl; Star Boy; Ultra Boy; Bouncing Boy; Shrinking Violet; Lightning Lad; Lightning Lass]
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Job Number: C-422
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Adventure Comics

Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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Brickface and the Trowel

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Plastic Man; Woozy Winks; Chief Branner; Terry Cotta; Trowel [Mason Stucko]; Cindy Block; Brickface
First Line: Boy, that Plastic Man is somethin' else!
Synopsis: Plas and Woozy investigate the murder of Alonzo Van Rivett.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagAdventure Comics #470 published April 1980
was Brickface and the Trowel [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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Part I: The Renegade Super-Hero!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Legion of Super-Heroes [Superboy; Ultra Boy; Phantom Girl; Saturn Girl; Sun Boy; Brainiac 5; Mon-El; Lightning Lad; Chameleon Boy; Bouncing Boy; Cosmic Boy; Shrinking Violet; Element Lad; Colossal Boy (cameo); Lightning Lass (cameo); Invisible Kid (cameo)]; Proty II
Synopsis: Ultra Boy is revealed to be an escaped convict and flees the Legion.
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From Content Item: FlagAdventure Comics #316 published January 1964
was The Renegade Super-Hero! Part I [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 9
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Part II: The End of a Super-Traitor!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Legion of Super-Heroes [Ultra Boy; Phantom Girl; Saturn Girl; Sun Boy; Brainiac 5; Mon-El; Chameleon Boy; Cosmic Boy; Element Lad; Invisible Kid]; Proty II
Synopsis: Ultra Boy's criminal past is revealed to be a ruse, so that he could infiltrate a pirate band.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagAdventure Comics #316 published January 1964
was [The Renegade Super-Hero!] Part II: The End of a Super-Traitor! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
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The Human Hawks

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Captain Marvel [also appears as Billy Batson]; Dudley Wright
Synopsis: Captain Marvel must rescue explorer Dudley Wright from the Hawkmen, a band of winged humans in the Himalayas.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagCaptain Marvel Adventures #143 published April 1953
was The Human Hawks [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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The Parchment of Power Perilous

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult, superhero
Character(s): The Spectre; Jim Corrigan; Narkran; Carstagg Mob
Synopsis: The Spectre carelessly injures a human, and is set up to be punished in later stories.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagThe Spectre #8 published January 1969
was The Parchment of Power Perilous [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 22
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Can This Be Death?..

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Aquaman; Aqualad; Mera; Ocean Master
Synopsis: The Ocean Master tries to warn Aquaman just before the Sea King is teleported to an alien world.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagAquaman #50 published March 1970
was Can This Be Death?.. The City on the Edge of Nowhere [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 16
Disclose Notes: Aparo draws panel on pg 11 using most of the names of DC staffers as part of the background.
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Zatanna, the Magician

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult, superhero
Character(s): Zatanna; Zatara; Jeff Sloane; Justice League of America [Hawkman; Elongated Man; Flash [Barry Allen]; Atom [Ray Palmer]; Green Lantern [Hal Jordan]; Batman] (all in cameo flashback)
Synopsis: An unseen villain gains control of Zatara and forces him to send Zatanna and Jeff into another dimension.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagAdventure Comics #413 published December 1971
was Zatanna the Magician! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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Part I: The Menace of Dream Girl!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Legion of Super-Heroes [Saturn Girl; Lightning Lass; Brainiac 5; Star Boy; Matter-Eater Lad; Superboy; Mon-El; Sun Boy; Triplicate Girl; Bouncing Boy; Dream Girl (joins)]; Rann Antar (applicant)
Synopsis: Dream Girl joins, causes Lightning Lass to lose her powers, and has Lightning Lass and Triplicate Girl expelled.
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From Content Item: FlagAdventure Comics #317 published February 1964
was The Menace of Dream Girl! Part I [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 9
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Part II: The Doom of the Legion!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Legion of Super-Heroes [Dream Girl (leaves); Saturn Girl; Brainiac 5; Star Boy; Matter-Eater Lad; Triplicate Girl; Sun Boy; Lightning Lad; Ultra Boy; Bouncing Boy; Shrinking Violet; Superboy; Lightning Lass [becomes Light Lass]; Chameleon Boy (cameo)]
Synopsis: Dream Girl has more Legionnaires expelled, in order to prevent her prediction of their deaths. The prediction proves false, Dream Girl leaves and the others are reinstated. She has also altered Lightning Lass's powers to the ability to make things super-light.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagAdventure Comics #317 published February 1964
was [The Menace of Dream Girl!] Part II The Doom of the Legion! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
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[untitled]

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): The Story Behind the Stories
Synopsis: Paul Levitz discusses the two Legion stories reprinted in this issue.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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[untitled]

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Aquaman; Billy Batson; Captain Marvel; Spectre; Zatanna; Jeff Sloane; Plastic Man
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover. Previews of the stories in the issue.

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