Adventure Comics, #218

Published: November 1955

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Adventure Comics #218

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Issue Contents:
The Two Worlds of Superboy!
1 page superhero
Characters
  • Jor-El
  • Lara
  • Pa Kent [Jonathan Kent]
Credits
Story Notes

inker credit by Bob Hughes

Story 1 1 page
Story Notes

Inside front cover.

The Two Worlds of Superboy
Story 2 12 pages superhero
Storyline

Continued from last issue... Superboy left Earth with Jor-El and Lara - but they're actors! Superboy faked the UFO and super-stunts. The hoax can end, for "Killer" Mason has been electrocuted. But a meteor strike forces them down to an asteroid. At home, Ma and Pa Kent will be honored as Superboy's adopted parents at a banquet. Only then do they find the cat hid a note from Superboy explaining the hoax! As Superboy returns the actors home, a fake Clark Kent takes his place at the banquet: a dummy made by Pa as a joke on Martha saves their secret!

Characters
  • Jor-El
  • Lara
  • Lana Lang
  • Ma Kent
  • Pa Kent
Credits
Story Notes

Inker credit by Bob Hughes. Story continued from previous issue.

Story 3 1 page
Buzzy Asks: "Do You Know Your Neighbors?"
Story 4 1 page advocacy; teen
Credits
Aquaman, Outlaw of the Sea
Story 5 6 pages superhero
Storyline

Sailors dump dangerous chemicals that can cause insanity into the sea, just as Aquaman surfaces nearby! He's jinxed as all the helpful rescues he tries flub up so he looks insane. Authorities try to trank him. It's only when he does flub up that he rescues a mini-sub, and looks smart. "I'd better just play along... and leave well enough alone!"

Credits
We Point with Pride to Our "Hall of Trophies!"
Story 6 1 page
Story 7 1 page humor

"Listen, Pop. This is an imitation of a train..."

Credits
World's Greatest Sports Games
Story 8 2 pages non-fiction
Storyline

A short history of the Olympic Games.

Credits
The Archer Who Lost His Aim
Story 9 6 pages superhero
Storyline

Green Arrow agrees to wear a chest monitor to test his physical and mental reactions for vital medical data. But his arrows go wild at odd moments, and crooks get away. Other times he can shoot fine. It's only when he ditches his steel arrows and borrows Speedy's wooden ones that they figure it out. The doctor's assistant put lead foil in the monitor and exposed the magnetized gear works by remote control for a cut of the crook's loot.

Credits
Story 10 1 page humor; western-frontier

"Hello, Sagebrush. How was the big city?"

Story 11 0 pages
Storyline

Ad by Daisy Manufacturing Company.

Story 12 1 page humor

"Peg, I see you're wearing a fraternity pin."

Story 13 1 page
Story 14 1 page
Story Notes

Inside back cover.

Story 15 1 page
Story Notes

Back cover.