Adventure Comics, #132
Published: September 1948
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Super Cowboy
Characters
- Superboy [Clark Kent]
Credits
- Pencils: Win Mortimer
- Inks: Win Mortimer
- Letters: Ira Schnapp
Editorial Advisory Board
Story Notes
Inside front cover.
Let the Facts Speak for Themselves--
Featuring Real Fact Comics
Story Notes
Inside front cover.
Superboy -- Super-Cowboy!
"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
- Script: Bill Finger
- Pencils: Al Wenzel
- Inks: Al Wenzel
Story Notes
art credits by Bob Hughes
Ewell Blackwell
The Aquagirl!
"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
- Script: Otto Binder
- Pencils: John Daly
- Inks: John Daly
Captain Tootsie Traps Killer Bear with Invisible Light
"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
- Captain Tootsie
- Rollo
- Coon Tail Charlie
Credits
- Pencils: C. C. Beck
- Inks: Pete Costanza
- Script: Rod Reed (uncertain)
The Impossible Alibi!
"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
- Pencils: George Papp
- Inks: George Papp
Sir Butch of Beeler's Alley!
"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
Credits
- Script: Don C. Cameron
- Pencils: Cristian Santos
- Inks: Cristian Santos
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
Credits
- Script: José Rizal
Everything You Want in a Magazine!
Featuring Gang Busters; Mr. District Attorney
The Phantom Formula!
"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
- Pencils: Mort Meskin
- Inks: George Roussos
Story Notes
Previously credited to Bill Woolfolk but it's not in his pay records per Martin O'Hearn.
Featuring Western Comics
Story Notes
Inside back cover.
Story Notes
Back cover.