Adventure Comics, #140

Published: May 1949

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Adventure Comics #140

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Issue Contents:
Six Superboys on the Moon!
1 page superhero
Characters
  • Superboy [Clark Kent] (x7)
Credits
Story Notes

Art identification by Bob Hughes.

Story 1 1 page
Story Notes

Inside front cover.

Journey to the Moon!
Story 2 10 pages superhero

"The Moon - Mystery satellite!"

Storyline

Superboy visits the moon with an absent-minded professor.

Characters
  • Superboy [Clark Kent]
  • Professor Starr
Credits
Story Notes

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

Bamboozling the Bank Robbers
Story 3 1 page adventure
Editorial Advisory Board
Story 4 1 page
Story 5 1 page
Untold Arrow Tales!
Story 6 10 pages adventure; superhero

"Green Arrow captured a tiger with an arrow..."

Storyline

A one time famous cartoonist is at the end of his career when Green Arrow offers to provide him new inspiration.

Characters
  • Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]
  • Speedy [Roy Harper]
  • Hal Harvey
Credits
Story Notes

Not sure if artist Papp modeled the cartoonist in this tale after himself. No photo of Papp is known to exist. KC - This is no longer true: <https://comicvine.gamespot.com/george-papp/4040-43722/>. Given the age difference, there is a certain resemblance between the photo and Hal Harvey's image, most noticeably on panel four of page three.

Story 7 1 page
Story 8 2 pages
Story 9 1 page
The Sleuth of the Sea!
Story 10 6 pages adventure; superhero

"Famed Aquaman is variously known as the King of the Sea..."

Storyline

After Aquaman, arrogant Phineas Pike is probably the world's leading authority on marine life, and tells everyone loudly and at length. He helps the hero locate the base of a gang of kidnappers. Aquaman discovers that, despite his vast knowledge, Phineas cannot swim.

Characters
  • Aquaman [Arthur Curry]
  • Sea Sleuth [Phineas Pike] (introduction)
Credits
Story 11 1 page
Story 12 1 page humor

"Look, Daffy... A nibble!"

Credits
What Makes a Car Go?
Story 13 2 pages non-fiction
Story 14 2 pages humor; teen

"Dad loaned me the new convertible for tonight!"

Storyline

Tuffy gets to borrow the convertible.

Characters
  • Peg
  • Tuffy
The Man Who Hated Water!
Story 15 8 pages superhero

"There are certain phobias that harass mankind!"

Storyline

Johnny Quick tries to bring two men together, one who hates water, and one who can't stand being without it. Many years earlier, Otis Baybridge and Jim Logan were stranded in the desert, when Baybridge refused to give Logan any water. All this time he thought he had left Logan to die, but Johnny locates him, now a raving madman who won't leave his pool of water. Johnny re-enacts the old scene, which snaps Logan back to reality.

Characters
  • Johnny Quick [Johnny Chambers]
  • Otis Baybridge
  • Jim Logan
  • Ronald
Story 16 1 page
Brink of Disaster
Story 17 1 page adventure
Story 18 1 page
Story Notes

Inside back cover.

Story 19 1 page
Story Notes

Back cover.