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Issue: Adventure Comics #145
Publication Date: October 1949
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Issues: #145 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: 08/10/1949
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 19 (5 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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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superboy [Clark Kent]
Synopsis: Billed as a 'One Man Circus', Superboy ties a knot in a steel girder.
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Pages: 1
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Editorial Advisory Board

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 0.33
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Feature(s): All-American Western; All-Star Comics; Scribbly
First Line: Want action?
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Pages: 0.67
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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The Holiday Hijackers!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superboy [Clark Kent]; Pa Kent; Ma Kent; Cyrus Barton
First Line: Holidays are usually great fun...
Synopsis: The Kents take Clark to Metropolis for the Fourth of July celebrations. Committee member Cyrus Barton advocates for the largest display of fireworks ever seen in the city, and crooks use the diversion to raid a bank vault. Superboy foils that and other crimes, resulting in a giant float depicting the Boy of Steel, who prophetically says, 'Thanks folks! Maybe I'll be back again some day!'
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In Content Item: FlagSuperboy Annual #1954-55 published January 1954
as The Holiday Hijackers! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 10
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Lou Boudreau

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Feature(s): Wheaties
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Pages: 1
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Hollywood's Top Adventure Star!

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Feature(s): The Adventures of Alan Ladd
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The Diary of a Desperado

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]; Speedy [Roy Harper]; Diary Dan (crook)
First Line: Do you keep a diary?
Synopsis: Gang leader Diary Dan keeps a diary of his crimes. While fleeing from the police, in a curio shop he finds a diary belonging to another criminal, dating from a thousand years in the past. He escapes Green Arrow and Speedy by using a trick found in the old diary. Green Arrow finally traps him by using his 'diary arrow', leaving a fake diary which Dan thinks is his own and stops to retrieve.
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Feature(s): Monark Super Deluxe
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The Sea Hitch-Hiker!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Aquaman [Arthur Curry]; Quentin Ward
First Line: Could you make your way around the world entirely by sea...
Synopsis: Cartoonist Quentin Ward tries to sell his editor a daily strip which shows his hero travelling around the world entirely by sea. To overcome the editor's objections, Ward offers to do the same in real life. He hops various freighters and fishing boats, and Aquaman gives him a hand by commanding a giant turtle (and later a whale) to give Ward a lift.
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Rescue from the Ravine

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Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Ray-o-Vac
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The Legend of the Flying Warrior!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Shining Knight [Sir Justin]; Merlin the Magician; the tribal chief; Black Owl
First Line: Sir Justin, whose other identity is The Shining Knight...
Synopsis: A museum guide tells his tour the legend of a winged warrior statue which pre-dates the discovery of America. Justin is the assistant curator, and recalls the occasion when, as Sir Justin of the Round Table, he magically tried to travel back a thousand years to King Arthur's court. But, dropping his sword during the time travel trip he landed among a tribe of First Nations peoples, thereby becoming the prototype of the legend.
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Disclose Notes: Set in the American West before white men moved to settle land.
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Mountain Rescue

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Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Bazooka the Atom Bubble Boy
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Buzzy Says Stay in School - Give Yourself a Break!

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Genres: humorous, opinion, teen
Feature(s): Buzzy
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Treetop Careers

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Genres: non-fiction
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My Kingdom for a Picture!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Johnny Quick [Johnny Chambers]; Tubby Watts
First Line: The team of Johnny Chambers, ace cameraman, and his portly assistant, Tubby Watts...
Synopsis: When Tubby asks for a promotion to full-time cameraman, his boss gives him the 'dull list', locations where good newsreel footage is impossible to obtain. While Tubby is at the zoo looking at bears lounging around, Johnny Quick agitates the air around them, causing the bears to dance. At the library Johnny spots a man trying to steal a rare book, and causes other volumes to fly off the shelves. And so on until the list is covered. All the while Tubby gets great footage. Unfortunately, he has forgotten to load an film into the camera.
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Pages: 8
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Follow the Danger Trail with Tomahawk

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Feature(s): Tomahawk; Star Spangled Comics
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Feature(s): Rubber-for-Molds, Inc.
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Feature(s): Motor's Auto Repair Manual
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Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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Flames of Death

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Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Another Exciting "RC" and Quickie Adventure!; Royal Crown Cola
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Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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