Adventure Comics, #251

Published: August 1958

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Adventure Comics #251

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Issue Contents:
Superboy's Last Day!
1 page superhero
Characters
  • Superboy robot
Credits

Featuring Jowett Institute of Physical Training

Story 1 1 page
Story Notes

Inside front cover.

Superboy's Last Day
Story 2 12 pages superhero
Storyline

In a flashback story, Superboy learns about kryptonite for the first time. His school assignment is Geology, so Pa Kent brings home a "green glowing rock" that sickens Superboy near death. Superboy sends his robots out on missions, except for his first obsolete lead-lined robot. Only when the robot steps in front of the deadly kryptonite does Superboy figure out the radiation. So it was sentimentality that saved his life!

Characters
  • Superboy robots (introductions)
  • Ma Kent
  • Pa Kent
  • Lana Lang
Credits
Story Notes

Superboy's five robots are introduced. All are remote controlled in this story.

Featuring Stephens Credit Sales

Story 3 1 page
Wanted: A Pal!
Story 4 1 page advocacy
Storyline

Frankie and Bob start talking about having a close friend.

Characters
  • Frankie
  • Bob
  • Jerry (flashback)
Credits
The Case of the Super-Arrows
Story 5 6 pages superhero
Storyline

Green Arrow receives arrows from fans from the future but they are stolen by "Cougar Cain" and his men.

Characters
  • Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]
  • Speedy [Roy Harper]
  • "Cougar" Cain
Credits
Story 6 1 page humor

"Hello! You're new around here, aren't you?"

Wings and Winnie Winchester Bag a Thief

Featuring Winchester Super Speed Roller Skates

Story 7 0 pages adventure

Featuring Read 'Em and Laugh

Story 8 1 page humor
Story 9 1 page humor

"I'd like to see an umbrella!"

Featuring Palisades Amusement Park

Story 10 1 page
A World without Water
Story 11 7 pages superhero
Storyline

Clearing his finny friends from an atomic test site, Aquaman is hurled into the distant future. Here the oceans have all dried up and all the world's remaining water is in a small aquarium in a museum! His finny friends are all dead? No, they evolved into land-whales and land-octopuses and real flying fish. He's taken to a lab with a time machine, but thieves burst in to steal it and loot the past. Aquaman summons his land-fish friends to pummel the thieves, and is soon sent home, glad to see all that water!

Characters
  • Aquaman
  • Topo
  • Admiral Brunt
  • Zed-3
  • Dr. Varn

Featuring Littleton Stamp Co.

Story 12 1 page

Featuring Daisy Air Rifle

Story 13 1 page

Featuring Junior Sales Club of America

Story 14 1 page
Story Notes

Inside back cover.

Featuring Daisy Air Rifles

Story 15 1 page
Story Notes

Back cover.