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Adventure Comics, #503 Direct

Published: September 1983

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Adventure Comics #503

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Issue Contents:
The Legion Mutiny!
1 page superhero
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Story Notes

Howard Bender confirmed his pencils and Pablo Marcos inks on the border artwork. Bender also confirmed the characters drawn in the border and back cover represented all the main characters that ever appeared in Adventure Comics (posted on his Facebook page, 21 June 2017).

Adventure Comics No. 503
Story 1 1 page
Credits
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Inside front cover. Includes indicia at bottom of page.

The Mutiny of the Legionnaires! Part I
Story 2 9 pages superhero

"In their great exploits in the 30th century, the Legion of Super-heroes have had an unbreakable tradition of loyalty and obedience..."

Storyline

During a rescue mission, stress gets to Sun Boy, who sets the rest of the Legionnaires adrift in a lifeboat.

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Part II: The Castaway Legionnaires!
Story 3 9 pages superhero

"Cast adrift, lost in space, six Legionnaires face doom!"

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The Legion must survive after being stranded in space by the crazed Sun Boy.

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Brickface the Wall-to-Wall Killer (1)
Story 4 9 pages superhero

"You should've been there (unless of course your were) department: mere moments ago, everyone's favorite shape-shifter rescued a distressed damsel..."

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Plastic Man defeats the villains Brickface and the Trowel.

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Story Notes

Original cliffhanger ending removed.

The Big Pull
Story 5 16 pages superhero

"I cannot help! Such concepts have no meaning to me!"

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Aquaman struggles to escape a weird alien water-world, while Mera and Aqualad deal with Ocean Master while trying to figure out what happened to Aquaman.

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The Traders' Trap!
Story 6 14 pages superhero

"In another dimension, a strange craft speeds around weird rolling spheres... past weird intersecting planes..."

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Aquaman deals with aliens and primitives in another dimension while trying to return home. Mera's desire for him to return helps bring him back.

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The Tower of the Dead!
Story 7 7 pages superhero

"Fragments of memory -- the shock and fear in her heart as her father, Zartara the magician, used his sorcery to cast her off the Earth..."

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Zatanna and Jeff are stranded in another dimension, where the king forces them to enter a mysterious castle. In the castle, the two encounter Gorgonus, a Medusa-like creature, who turns Jeff to stone.

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Kill-- or Be Killed
Story 8 7 pages superhero

"The memories come quicker now, flooding across your mind like a terrible tide..."

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Zatanna and Jeff return to Earth, which frees Jeff from his stony trap. They encounter and battle little goblins, who reveal that Zatara, Zatanna's father, is going to summon monsters to Earth. Zatanna battles Zatara, and learns his old foe Allura is really behind it all.

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The Story of the Newsboy Legion (1)
Story 9 13 pages adventure; children

"A wise man once said... "There is no such thing as a bad boy!"..."

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Police officer Jim Harper discovers he can do good as the costumed Guardian in situations where the law is limited. Meanwhile, he also meets a group street kids who sell newspapers, and they help him bring down a criminal.

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Elastic Lad Jimmy and His Legion Romances!
Story 10 9 pages superhero

"Here's a story you'll chuckle over for years to come..."

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The ladies of the Legion bring Jimmy Olsen to the future to make him feel better about himself after he is snubbed by Lucy Lane.

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New Comics #1 cover (1)
Story 11 1 page

"This comic, published in 1935, was one of the first "true" comics (not merely collections of syndicated newspaper strips)."

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New Adventure Comics #12 cover (1)
Story 12 1 page

"By issue #12 (1936), "Adventure" had been sneaked into the title but the emphasis still remained on humor."

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New Adventure Comics #15 cover (1)
Story 13 1 page

"A mere three issues later, the covers changed their trend toward realism -- or "light" adventure, if you prefer -- but the interiors remained a mixture."

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Featuring The Story Behind the Stories

Story 14 1 page

"The chronological reprinting of the Legion's adventures rolls onward this month..."

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Story Notes

Comments about the Legion stories in the issue. Inside back cover.

100 Pages of Thrills!
Story 15 1 page
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Many tiny characters in illustration surrounding a box with promos for the stories in the issue. With the border of the front cover, features all the main characters that have appeared in Adventure Comics over the years. Back cover.