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Issue: Adventure Comics #136
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Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagDC
On Sale Date: 11/22/1948
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 25 (7 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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Cover, Front
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Title Page
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superhero
Superboy [Clark Kent]
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Editorial Advisory Board

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Inside front cover.
America's Greatest Comics Characters

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Inside front cover.
My Pal -- Superboy!

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superhero
Superboy [Clark Kent]; Joe Vance; Roger Belding
Dear Superboy : I sure was up against it...
Joe Vance is out of reform school and all he wants is a second chance, but the kids at Clark's school won't give him one.
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Henry Iba

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Wheaties
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Schwinn
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Johnny Quick for a Day!

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superhero
Johnny Quick [Johnny Chambers]; Tubby Watts; Tinka Elwood; Curve Carver; Jason Dewarr
How would you like to be Johnny Quick?
Johnny Quick gives his speed to three people for 24 hours to show them that speed isn't all it's cracked up to be.
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Gets the Bird!

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adventure
Bazooka the Atom Bubble Boy
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Columbia
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Kellogg's Rice Krispies
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childrens, humorous
Oh my gosh! It's awfully late!
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FlagBatman #102 published September 1956
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FlagSuperboy #96 published April 1962
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Irvin Foster Sportswear
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Water Boy!

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adventure, superhero
Aquaman [Arthur Curry]; Chuck Finn; Petty
The boy's name was Chuck Finn
Champion swimmer Chuck Finn is forced to help Petty rob a river boat.
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[untitled]

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Monark Super Deluxe
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Dish Washer Wanted

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humorous
Daffy & Doodle
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FlagSuperboy #51 published September 1956
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Adventures of Nip & Tuck; Smith Brothers Cough Drops
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Junior Statesmen

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humorous, teen
How about taking in a movie with me tonight, Peg?
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FlagAdventure Comics #230 published November 1956
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[untitled]

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Northwestern Products Co.
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Mystery Mine's Treasure!

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adventure
Ray-o-Vac
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Crimes by the Ghost!

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adventure, superhero
Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]; Speedy [Roy Harper]; Tim Pebble [The Ghost] (villain, only appearance); Dumb Duke (crook); Politician Gibbs
From ghost-writer to ghost-crimester to...ghost.
Tim Pebble gets tired of being a ghost writer and decides to become a ghost criminal instead, planning robberies for others to pull off.
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The Man with the Purple Hand

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adventure
Adventures of Sam Spade; Wildroot Cream-Oil
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1
[untitled]

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Thom McAn
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[untitled]

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National Radio Institute
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Inside back cover.
What to Do If Lost in the Woods at Night

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Eveready
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Back cover.

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