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Adventure Comics, #254

Published: November 1958

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Adventure Comics #254

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Issue Contents:
I Was a Teen-Age Superboy!
1 page superhero
Characters
  • Superboy
  • Jimmy Saunders
  • Ronnie James
  • Fred Gordon
Credits
Story 1 1 page
Story Notes

Sold by Honor House Products Corp. Inside front cover.

I Was a Teen-Age Superboy
Story 2 13 pages superhero
Storyline

Under a Kryptonite "spell" from Krypto, Superboy mysteriously gives different super powers to various boys in Smallville, with mixed results. Lana Lang tricks him into giving her super-speed but keeps setting herself afire!

Characters
  • Krypto
  • Jimmy Saunders
  • Ronnie James
  • Fred Gordon
  • Prof Lang
  • Lana Lang
  • Ma Kent
Credits
Story Notes

Story title is probably inspired by the 1957 movies "I Was a Teenage Frankenstein" and "I Was a Teenage Werewolf."

Story 3 0 pages
Story 4 1 page humor

"And stay there until I tell you to come out!"

Credits

Featuring Showcase; Adam Strange

Story 5 1 page superhero
Credits
The Menace of the Electric Man!
Story 6 6 pages superhero
Storyline

An escaped convict finds himself immune to electric shock. During storms at sea, the "Electric Man" gathers lightning bolts to rob ships. Aquaman is helpless to stop him until he remembers a particular cargo of rubber that allows him and Topo to defeat the villain.

Characters
  • Aquaman
  • Topo
  • Electric Man [Roy Pinto]
Credits
Story Notes

Writer credit from Martin O'Hearn at http://martinohearn.blogspot.com/. Electric Man is similar to Spider-Man's later foe Electro.

Story 7 0 pages
Look to the Stars!
Story 8 1 page advocacy; math & science

"Gosh Bob, we're lost! What do we do now?"

Storyline

Bob and his friends are saved from being lost in the woods because Bob knows how to find Polaris, the North Star.

Characters
  • Bob
  • Ted
Credits
Story Notes

Appeared across a range of DC comics in November/December 1958.

Story 9 1 page humor

"I can't get a raise in pay from the boss."

Credits
Story 10 1 page
Story Notes

Replies read like Murray Boltinoff.

The Green Arrow's Last Stand
Story 11 6 pages superhero
Storyline

Green Arrow and Speedy land in a remote valley that is still occupied by Sioux Indian warriors. The conniving chief and medicine man manufacture a fake "legend" to retain power, but GA's trick arrows win the day and liberate the tribe.

Characters
  • Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]
  • Speedy [Roy Harper]
  • Professor Hagen
  • Arrowcar
  • Arrowplane
  • Brave Turtle (Medicine Man)
Credits
Story 12 0 pages
Story 13 1 page non-fiction

"He's duded up to go the the haymaker's jig!"

Credits
Story 14 0 pages
Story 15 1 page
Story 16 1 page
Story Notes

Inside back cover.

Story 17 1 page
Story Notes

Back cover.