Adventure Comics, #145

Published: October 1949

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Adventure Comics #145

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1 page superhero
Storyline

Billed as a 'One Man Circus', Superboy ties a knot in a steel girder.

Characters
  • Superboy [Clark Kent]
Credits
Story Notes

art credits by Bob Hughes

Editorial Advisory Board
Story 1 0 pages
Story Notes

Inside front cover.

Featuring All-American Western; All-Star Comics; Scribbly

Story 2 1 page

"Want action?"

Story Notes

Inside front cover.

The Holiday Hijackers!
Story 3 10 pages superhero

"Holidays are usually great fun..."

Storyline

The Kents take Clark to Metropolis for the Fourth of July celebrations. Committee member Cyrus Barton advocates for the largest display of fireworks ever seen in the city, and crooks use the diversion to raid a bank vault. Superboy foils that and other crimes, resulting in a giant float depicting the Boy of Steel, who prophetically says, 'Thanks folks! Maybe I'll be back again some day!'

Characters
  • Superboy [Clark Kent]
  • Pa Kent
  • Ma Kent
  • Cyrus Barton
Credits
Lou Boudreau
Story 4 1 page
Hollywood's Top Adventure Star!

Featuring The Adventures of Alan Ladd

Story 5 1 page
The Diary of a Desperado
Story 6 8 pages superhero

"Do you keep a diary?"

Storyline

Gang leader Diary Dan keeps a diary of his crimes. While fleeing from the police, in a curio shop he finds a diary belonging to another criminal, dating from a thousand years in the past. He escapes Green Arrow and Speedy by using a trick found in the old diary. Green Arrow finally traps him by using his 'diary arrow', leaving a fake diary which Dan thinks is his own and stops to retrieve.

Characters
  • Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]
  • Speedy [Roy Harper]
  • Diary Dan (crook)
Credits
Story 7 1 page
Story Notes

Ad for the Monark Super Deluxe model.

The Sea Hitch-Hiker!
Story 8 6 pages superhero

"Could you make your way around the world entirely by sea..."

Storyline

Cartoonist Quentin Ward tries to sell his editor a daily strip which shows his hero travelling around the world entirely by sea. To overcome the editor's objections, Ward offers to do the same in real life. He hops various freighters and fishing boats, and Aquaman gives him a hand by commanding a giant turtle (and later a whale) to give Ward a lift.

Characters
  • Aquaman [Arthur Curry]
  • Quentin Ward
Credits
Rescue from the Ravine
Story 9 1 page adventure
The Legend of the Flying Warrior!
Story 10 6 pages superhero

"Sir Justin, whose other identity is The Shining Knight..."

Storyline

A museum guide tells his tour the legend of a winged warrior statue which pre-dates the discovery of America. Justin is the assistant curator, and recalls the occasion when, as Sir Justin of the Round Table, he magically tried to travel back a thousand years to King Arthur's court. But, dropping his sword during the time travel trip he landed among a tribe of First Nations peoples, thereby becoming the prototype of the legend.

Characters
  • Shining Knight [Sir Justin]
  • Merlin the Magician
  • the tribal chief
  • Black Owl
Credits
  • Pencils:
  • Inks:
Story Notes

Set in the American West before white men moved to settle land.

Mountain Rescue
Story 11 1 page adventure
Buzzy Says Stay in School - Give Yourself a Break!
Story 12 1 page humor; advocacy; teen
Credits
Treetop Careers
Story 13 2 pages non-fiction
My Kingdom for a Picture!
Story 14 8 pages superhero

"The team of Johnny Chambers, ace cameraman, and his portly assistant, Tubby Watts..."

Storyline

When Tubby asks for a promotion to full-time cameraman, his boss gives him the 'dull list', locations where good newsreel footage is impossible to obtain. While Tubby is at the zoo looking at bears lounging around, Johnny Quick agitates the air around them, causing the bears to dance. At the library Johnny spots a man trying to steal a rare book, and causes other volumes to fly off the shelves. And so on until the list is covered. All the while Tubby gets great footage. Unfortunately, he has forgotten to load an film into the camera.

Characters
  • Johnny Quick [Johnny Chambers]
  • Tubby Watts
Credits
Follow the Danger Trail with Tomahawk

Featuring Tomahawk; Star Spangled Comics

Story 15 1 page
Story 16 1 page
Story 17 1 page
Story Notes

Inside back cover.

Flames of Death
Story 18 1 page adventure
Story Notes

Back cover.