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Adventure Comics, #283

Published: April 1961

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Adventure Comics #283

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Issue Contents:
The Phantom Superboy!
1 page superhero
Characters
  • Martha Kent
  • Jonathan Kent
  • Superboy
Credits
Story 1 1 page
Story Notes

Sold by Honor House Products Corp. Inside front cover.

The Phantom Superboy
Story 2 14 pages superhero
Storyline

After Professor Lang finds a box of Kryptonian weapons, Superboy is accidentally projected into the Phantom Zone, the place where Kryptonian criminals were exiled. But using mental telepathy he activates an electric typewriter and tells Pa Kent how to free him.

Characters
  • Superboy
  • Krypto
  • Lana Lang
  • Clark Kent robot
  • Martha Kent
  • Jonathan Kent
  • Phantom Zone (intro)
  • General Zod (intro, in flashback)
  • Dr. Xadu (intro, in flashback)
Credits
Story Notes

Based in part on the second Superman movie serial from 1950.

Coming... Super-Attractions!

Featuring Superman; Action Comics; Superboy

Story 3 0 pages
Story 4 1 page humor

"This spot looks fine!"

Storyline

Shorty has good luck "prospecting" and finds a site for a hot dog stand.

Credits
Story 5 1 page
Story 6 1 page
Credits
Story Notes

Letters from Frederick J. Lulling, Ellen McCune, Gary Posner, Henry Mayer, Donald Walker, Michael Leigh Brown, Kenneth Landgraf, and Nancy Smith; includes statement that "Smallville, U.S.A. is a suburb in an eastern state of the United States"(i.e., not Kansas).

Here It Is

Featuring Justice League of America

Story 7 1 page
A Salute to Our American Indians!
Story 8 1 page advocacy
Credits
The Lion with the Double Identity!
Story 9 12 pages jungle; superhero
Storyline

Congorilla-like lion

Characters
  • Janu
  • The Golden Lion (intro)
  • Tim Tully (intro)
Credits
Story 10 1 page humor

"I'm going over to the schoolyard!"

Storyline

Parents hide birthday present in Pete's messy closet.

Credits
Story 11 1 page
Story 12 1 page
Story Notes

Inside back cover.

Story 13 1 page
Story Notes

Back cover.