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Adventure Comics, #273

Published: June 1960

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Adventure Comics #273

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Issue Contents:
The Boy Who Was Stronger Than Superboy!
1 page superhero
Characters
  • Ted Grahame
  • Lana Lang
Credits

Featuring Joe Weider

Story 1 1 page
Story Notes

Inside front cover.

The Boy Who Was Stronger Than Superboy!
Story 2 12 pages superhero
Storyline

A Smallville boy gains super strength from a mysterious meteor.

Characters
  • Ted Grahame
  • Lana Lang
  • Pa Kent
Credits
The Readers' Choice!

Featuring The Brave and the Bold; Justice League of America; Showcase; Rip Hunter... Time Master

Story 3 1 page
Story 4 1 page humor

"Gosh! Oh Shorty!"

Credits

Featuring Palisades Amusement Park

Story 5 1 page
Around the World in 80 Hours!
Story 6 7 pages superhero
Storyline

An author needs Aquaman to prove he can swim around the world in 80 hours. While Aquaman does this, he and Aqualad have to fight off Smugglers, Incorporated.

Characters
  • Aquaman [Arthur Curry]
  • Aqualad [Garth]
  • Captain Kryle
  • Smugglers Incorporated (Villains)
  • Agent X-6 (member of Smugglers Incorporated)
  • Aden (Member of Smugglers Incorporated)
Credits
Story Notes

Writer credit from Martin O'Hearn at http://martinohearn.blogspot.com/. In one sequence Smugglers, Incorporated sets off an atomic bomb and Aquaman gets octopuses to wrap him and Aqualad in lead so they can drift through the radiation.

Story 7 1 page humor

"Have a nice flight, Ollie!"

Credits
Coming... Super-Attractions!

Featuring Superman; Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane; Action Comics

Story 8 0 pages
Story 9 1 page
Story Notes

Letters from Trudy Schwartzman and Martha Tolmack, Janet Smolinsky, Martin Polinsky, M. Goode and C. Burrows, Thomas Rogers, Larry Southern, Mark O'Flynn, and Dennis Sullivan.

Congorilla's Twin!
Story 10 7 pages jungle; superhero
Storyline

A showman disguises one of his henchman as Congorilla so he can make a few bucks.

Characters
  • Congo Bill
  • Janu
Credits

Featuring Stephens Credit Sales

Story 11 1 page
Be Your Own Boss!
Story 12 1 page advocacy
Credits
Story Notes

inside back cover

Featuring Wilson Chemical Co.

Story 13 1 page
Story Notes

Back cover.