Adventure Comics, #132

Published: September 1948

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Adventure Comics #132

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Issue Contents:
Super Cowboy
1 page superhero
Characters
  • Superboy [Clark Kent]
Credits
Editorial Advisory Board
Story 1 0 pages
Story Notes

Inside front cover.

Let the Facts Speak for Themselves--

Featuring Real Fact Comics

Story 2 1 page
Story Notes

Inside front cover.

Superboy -- Super-Cowboy!
Story 3 10 pages superhero

"It's a long way from the school house to a ranch house and there's danger all the way."

Storyline

Clark's teacher Edwin Sayers is left a ranch out West, and decides to retire and become a rancher. As he leaves he invites all the youngsters in his class to come and visit him. During the next vacation they pile onto a train, but no one has told Sayers, so Superboy flies on ahead to give warning. From the air he sees that the Sayers ranch is just a tumbledown shack and scrub land. He does some serious landscaping, fashioning a stetson shaped ranch house and bringing in a herd of wild horses for the kids. He also foils a plot by next door rancher Ben Torpe to kill Sayers and acquire his land.

Characters
  • Superboy [Clark Kent]
  • Edwin Sayers (teacher)
  • Ben Torpe
Credits
Story Notes

art credits by Bob Hughes

Ewell Blackwell
Story 4 1 page
Sam Takes Himself for a Ride
Story 5 1 page adventure
Credits
The Aquagirl!
Story 6 7 pages adventure; superhero

"Hi, mermaid - I'll race you across the ocean!"

Storyline

Millionaire Mark Windham sees a beautiful mermaid and asks Aquaman to help him find her again. Of all the denizens of the sea, Aquaman has never come across a mermaid before, but he tracks her down and discovers her name is Thetis. But she is really a human girl named Jane Stone, who has been threatened unless she pose as a mermaid in order to have Windham committed as insane. Windham's bookkeeper Phil Johnson is behind the plot, to cover up his embezzlement of Windham's money.

Characters
  • Aquaman [Arthur Curry]
  • Aquagirl [Thetis aka Jane Stone] (intro)
  • Mark Windham
  • Phil Johnson
Credits
Captain Tootsie Traps Killer Bear with Invisible Light
Story 7 1 page superhero

"Captain Tootsie and the Secret Legion are camping in the mountains."

Storyline

While camping in the mountains, Captain Tootsie uses an Army Sniperscope to hunt down a killer bear at night.

Characters
Credits
The Impossible Alibi!
Story 8 8 pages adventure; superhero

"The alibi looked good, yet something had to be wrong..."

Storyline

The Professor is a blackmailer who has killed one of his victims. Creating an elaborate alibi, he fails to account for Oliver and Roy meeting him at the same time he was supposedly involved in a car accident.

Characters
  • Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]
  • Speedy [Roy Harper]
  • The Professor
  • Officer O'Malley
Credits
Story 9 1 page
Sir Butch of Beeler's Alley!
Story 10 7 pages fantasy; superhero

"Want to take a trip into the past?"

Storyline

Present day tough kid Butch Boyle travels into the past and becomes Shining Knight's squire in Camelot. They set out to free the Princess Elaine from the evil Archimago. For his efforts, King Arthur knights Butch and declares him a Knight of the Round Table.

Characters
  • Shining Knight [Sir Justin]
  • Archimago (intro, villain)
  • Sir Butch of Beeler's Alley [Butch Boyle] (intro)
  • King Arthur
  • Merlin the Magician
  • Princess Elaine
Story Notes

See #124 for second appearance of Archimago and Sir Butch. Stories printed out of sequence. Merlin calls Sir Justin back to Camelot from the 20th century for the first time since he was frozen in a glacier for centuries.

Under the Microscope
Story 11 2 pages non-fiction
Credits
Everything You Want in a Magazine!

Featuring Gang Busters; Mr. District Attorney

Story 12 1 page
The Phantom Formula!
Story 13 9 pages superhero

"Quick, Johnny - - your magic formula!"

Storyline

Johnny can't remember the magic formula that gives him super speed.

Characters
  • Johnny Quick [Johnny Chambers]
  • Tubby Watts
  • Professor Medulla
Credits
Story Notes

Previously credited to Bill Woolfolk but it's not in his pay records per Martin O'Hearn.

Featuring Western Comics

Story 14 1 page
Story Notes

Inside back cover.

Story 15 1 page
Story Notes

Back cover.