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Issue: Adventure Comics #133
Publication Date: October 1948
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Issues: #133 of 472 Issues (530 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: A Superman DC PublicationView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: National Comics Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 08/18/1948
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 20 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
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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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Superboy's Report Card

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superboy [Clark Kent]; Miss Davis (teacher)
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Pages: 1
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Feature(s): Kodak
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Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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Superboy's Report Card

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superboy [Clark Kent]; Perkins the Truant Officer; Miss Davis (teacher)
First Line: Yes, teacher, a meteor gets red-hot as it passes through the Earth's atmosphere!
Synopsis: Since the truant officer wants Superboy to go to school, he has to pass through all the grades in one day, in order not to jeopardize his secret identity.
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In Content Item: FlagAdventure Comics Featuring Superboy #5 published June 1949
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In Content Item: FlagSuperboy Annual #1954-55 published January 1954
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Pages: 10
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Johnny Mize

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Feature(s): Wheaties
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Bit-o-Honey Races to the Rescue!

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Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Meet a Bit-o-Honey
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Full page sequential art ad for Bit-o-Honey candy.
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The Red, White, and Blue Arrow!

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Genres: adventure, superhero
Character(s): Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]; Speedy [Roy Harper]; Red Arrow; White Arrow; Blue Arrow; Bronco Bates
First Line: You have all heard of that master bowman, Green Arrow!
Synopsis: Speedy begins to doubt the skill of his mentor, so Green Arrow allows three archers to contend for the right to replace him. In reality, Oliver is himself all the replacements - Red, White and Blue Arrows - a ruse to show Speedy he was wrong to doubt him.
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Feature(s): Kellogg's Variety
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Everybody's Sold on Scribbly

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Feature(s): Scribbly
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Disclose Notes: Full page promo ad for Scribbly #2.
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The Great White Whale!

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Genres: adventure, superhero
Character(s): Aquaman [Arthur Curry]; Captain Mohab; Sharkey
First Line: Fate plays strange tricks in the deep.
Synopsis: Aquaman saves Captain Mohab from being dragged under by the great white whale. Mohab orders the men who stowed a faulty harpoon in the boat to receive ten lashes apiece. Aquaman asks that the men be spared, but Mohab is quite mad with revenge against the great white which took his leg. Aquaman is knocked out from behind and tied to the yard arm. A storm breaks him free and he brings Mohab to his knees.
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Disclose Notes: Based on 2Moby Dick" by Herman Melville.
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Genres: humorous
First Line: Pretty soft, standing here collecting...
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Feature(s): Bazooka the Atom Bubble Boy
First Line: What's that big crowd...
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Disclose Notes: Full page sequential panel art ad for Bazooka bubble gum.
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For Thrills! For Action!

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Genres: adventure
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Disclose Notes: Full page promo ad for Flash Comics #100, Action Comics #125, and Sensation Comics #82.
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North Atlantic Vigil

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: adventure
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Feature(s): Spalding
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Concert of Crimes!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Johnny Quick [Johnny Chambers]; Tubby Watts; The Jail Jivers; Cracker Cole
First Line: Out of prison gates one day walk the Jail Jivers...
Synopsis: A group of convicts form a swing band called the Jail Jivers. The warden gets them early parole and they go on tour, playing music to packed houses. When crimes are committed in towns where the band plays, they become suspects and are arrested. Johnny gives one audience a performance as a one man band, playing all the instruments simultaneously. He also exposes the gang of Cracker Cole, who have been following the tour bus and committing the crimes.
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Editorial Advisory Board

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Feature(s): Bendix Coaster Brake
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Feature(s): Thom McAn
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Feature(s): Charles Atlas
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Hero on the Bench

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Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Adventures of "R. C." and Quickie; Royal Crown Cola
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Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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