Adventure Comics #193

DC Comics

United States

Published
October 1953
Page count
44
Cover price
0.10 USD
Colour
Colour
Format
Comic series
GCD
www.comics.org/issue/10855

Credits

Editing
Whitney Ellsworth

Issue contents Hide all

Show/hide Cover Superboy's Lost Costume! (Superboy) Cover, 1 page

Featuring

Feature
Superboy
Genre
Superhero

Credits

Art
Win Mortimer

Reprint history

Also printed
United Kingdom
Superboy (Colour Comics, 1950 series) #67 ([September 1954])
Superboy's Lost Costume
Show/hide 1. Superboy's Lost Costume! (Superboy) Comic story, 12 pages

Featuring

Feature
Superboy
Genre
Superhero

Credits

Art
John Sikela

Reprint history

Also printed
Australia
Superboy (Colour Comics, 1950 series) #67 ([August 1954?])
Superboy's Lost Costume
 
United Kingdom
Superboy (Colour Comics, 1950 series) #67 ([September 1954])
Superboy's Lost Costume
 
United Kingdom
Superboy (Colour Comics, 1950 series) #67 ([September 1954])

Synopsis

Clark goes swimming and hides his costume, but a boy finds it. He dons it to impress a girl, is seen as a fraud, so Superboy, in a spare suit, steers a harmless bear their way to buck up the boy's courage. Then a down-and-outer finds it and uses it for his first desperate robbery (on a jewelry store Superboy fakes), but regrets it and stays honest. A crook shows off "indestructible cloth" and sells many bolts, until Superboy makes him return the money. Superboy says the costume "made quite an impression" on three people, without "the slightest tear or stain on it!"

Show/hide 2. Quick Quiz Comic story, 0.5 pages

Credits

Script
H. T. Elmo
Art
H. T. Elmo
Letters
H. T. Elmo
Show/hide 3. Give Your Pet All the Breaks! (Binky ) Public service announcement, 1 page

Featuring

Feature
Binky
Genre
Teen

Credits

Script
Jack Schiff
Art
Win Mortimer
Letters
Ira Schnapp

Notes

Public Service Page

Show/hide 4. Secret of the Sea Monster! (Aquaman) Comic story, 5.67 pages

Featuring

Feature
Aquaman
Genre
Superhero

Credits

Art
Ramona Fradon

Synopsis

Aquaman uses whales to tow an iceberg out of harm's way, but it melts and releases a giant sea serpent. He's a "goner", but the monster just wants a friend. Yet Aquaman's "new pet" keeps trapping ships and terrifying the crew, and the Navy threatens to blast it. Aquaman finally learns the creature was sniffing coal smoke and hungry for coal, so he steers it to a coal mine with "enough coal ore to keep you contented for the next thousand years!"

Show/hide 5. New Outfit (Peg) Comic story, 0.67 pages

Featuring

Feature
Peg
Genre
Humor

Credits

Script
Henry Boltinoff
Art
Henry Boltinoff
Letters
Henry Boltinoff
Show/hide 6. Thunderbolts on Mount Olympus! (Johnny Quick) Comic story, 6 pages

Featuring

Feature
Johnny Quick
Genre
Superhero
Characters
Johnny Quick; Tubby Watts; Hermes (AKA Mercury); Echo; Zeus; Bacchus; Echo; Pan

Credits

Art
Ralph Mayo

Synopsis

Tubby Watts photographs a newly discovered statue of Hermes... The statue whirls Tubby around. Johnny Chambers / Quick dives in, but they ride a thunderbolt to Mount Olympus. A race is needed - and cheating. Hermes turns invisible, but Johnny spins flower petals to spot him. A touch of his staff puts Johnny to sleep, but Tubby dumps ambrosia, so Johnny wakes. A sip from Lethe, the River of Forgetfulness, makes Johnny forget his magic formula until Echo repeats it. Johnny wins - and Tubby wakes up. All a dream!

Show/hide 7. Present and Ancient Mariners Text article, 2 pages

Featuring

Genre
Non-fiction

Credits

Author
Art
Raymond Perry
Letters
typeset

Notes

text w/illo

Show/hide 8. The Carton (Varsity Vic) Comic story, 0.67 pages

Featuring

Feature
Varsity Vic
Genre
Humor

Credits

Script
Henry Boltinoff
Art
Henry Boltinoff
Letters
Henry Boltinoff
Show/hide 9. The Three Shots That Green Arrow Missed! (Green Arrow) Comic story, 8 pages

Featuring

Feature
Green Arrow
Genre
Superhero

Credits

Art
George Papp

Synopsis

The cops want to nail Big Dan Drake, Czar of Crime. Green Arrow and Speedy are asked to escort a witness, but he's kidnapped. Chasing the gang, GA "misses" and breaks a window, drops a water tank, and crashes a car. Has he lost his touch? They nail the gang at the docks and rescue the witness. With no time to explain, GA spotted three traps: the room contained gas, the water tank strut was weakened, and the car was empty and a road menace. "So you didn't miss! You shot the very targets you aimed for!"


Status

AusReprints ID

  • 36438

Entry created

  • 18/05/2008

Index completed

  • 03/04/2017

Last updated

  • 03/04/2017