Adventure Comics, #197
Published: February 1954
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Issue Contents:
Superboy Battles Juvenile Gangs!
Can You Draw Me?
Story Notes
Inside front cover.
Clark Kent -- Toughie!
Storyline
Clark Kent turns bad, shooting spitballs and mouthing off. He's asked to join the Skull and Crossbones Gang, and (barely) passes the initiation. (These "gangs" are boys on tricked-out bicycles.) Their enemies are the Red Dragons, and both pull pranks. Clark/Superboy gently steers them by making a statue talk, inadvertently helping an old woman and her shoe store, then sends them carrying water on their bikes to battle a raging wildfire. Both gangs get awards, and will now compete to out-good-deed each other! And Clark is thanked by the principal for his undercover operation.
Characters
- Superboy
Credits
- Script: Bill Woolfolk
- Pencils: Curt Swan
- Inks: Sy Barry
Story Notes
Woolfolk credit by Martin O'Hearn at http://martinohearn.blogspot.com/. Inker credit by Bob Hughes.
"Headhunters live in this part of the jungle!"
Credits
- Pencils: Ray Thompson
- Inks: Ray Thompson
Editorial Advisory Board
The Best Present of All!
Credits
- Script: Jack Schiff
- Pencils: Bob Oksner
- Inks: Bob Oksner
- Letters: Ira Schnapp
Aquaman Walks the Plank!
Storyline
The camelback (humped) whale is in danger of extinction, so whalers agree to spare them. Except Captain Samson, a piratical schooner whaler. Aquaman goes undercover as a sailor and blocks their harpooning. He's made to walk the plank in irons, but of course doesn't drown. He gets loose with help of fish friends, jolts Captain Samson with a "chain" of electric eels, and exacts a promise to avoid camelback whales. Samson even thinks, "... having Aquaman on [my] side could come in real handy some times!"
Credits
- Pencils: Ramona Fradon
- Inks: Ramona Fradon
Story Notes
Sold by Lucky Song Parade Co.
"What a nice day in the park!"
Credits
- Script: Henry Boltinoff
- Pencils: Henry Boltinoff
- Inks: Henry Boltinoff
- Letters: Henry Boltinoff
The Second Fastest Man
Storyline
Johnny Chambers/Quick and Tubby Watts cover the Fastest Men's Club Annual Speed Meet. Sportsmen compete to fly the fastest jet, submarine, race car. But someone is cheating and Johnny Quick must prop up a failing helicopter, disarm a missile in mid-air, and puncture a jet in flight. The cheater goes to jail, but all the pros admit they'll always be "the second fastest man" compared to Johnny Quick.
Credits
- Pencils: Ralph Mayo
- Inks: Ralph Mayo
Do You Know How to Stay Alive?
Credits
- Script: Mort Weisinger
- Pencils: Luca Maresca
- Inks: Luca Maresca
Featuring Hopalong Cassidy
Crime's TV Station!
Storyline
Green Arrow and Speedy bust a crooks distracted by - a TV show? They're astonished to see Station G-U-N is broadcasting real-crime reenactments to criminals via closed-circuit TV. Worse, the crooks broadcast fake footage, "Green Arrow's Disgrace", showing the hero cowardly running from criminals! "Great galloping ghosts!" Spying on a reenactment, the heroes follow the crooks to the secret TV studio, and bust the TV gang on live television for all criminals to see!
Credits
- Pencils: George Papp
- Inks: George Papp
Story Notes
Inside back cover.