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Story featuring Superman, Story featuring Challengers of the Unknown

Credits:

• Pencils: Keith Giffen
• Inks: Frank Giacoia
• Colors: Anthony Tollin
• Letters: Gaspar Saladino

Part Two: Contract on a Champ!

Story featuring Challengers of the Unknown

Storyline: Retelling of the origin of the Challengers continues.

Credits:

• Script: Bob Rozakis
• Pencils: George Tuska
• Inks: Andy Mushynsky
• Colors: Carl Gafford
• Letters: Milt Snapinn

Part I: Superboy's Big Brother!

Story featuring Superboy

Storyline: When a space ship crashes outside Smallville, Superboy finds an amnesiac super-powered youth who might be his older brother. He christens him Mon-El and sets him up with a secret identity, but he soon finds evidence that Mon-El is not in fact Kryptonian.

Credits:

• Script: Robert Bernstein
• Pencils: George Papp
• Inks: George Papp
• Colors: Jerry Serpe
• Letters: Joe Letterese
• Editing: Mort Weisinger

Part 2: The Secret of Mon-El!

Story featuring Superboy

Storyline: Trying to prove Mon-El isn't actually Kryptonian, Superboy accidentally exposes him to lead, which both poisons him and returns his memory. He remembers that he is a space explorer from Daxam named Lar Gand, who visited Krypton, meeting Jor-El and Lara, before arriving on Earth. To save his life, Superboy sends Lar Gand into the Phantom Zone until he can cure him of his lead poisoning.

Credits:

• Script: Robert Bernstein
• Pencils: George Papp
• Inks: George Papp
• Colors: Jerry Serpe
• Letters: Joe Letterese
• Editing: Mort Weisinger

To Win Is to Lose!

Story featuring Aquaman

Storyline: Aqualad continues the search for Mera while Aquaman is temporarily sidelined.

Credits:

• Script: Steve Skeates
• Pencils: Jim Aparo
• Inks: Jim Aparo
• Colors: Bob LeRose
• Letters: Jim Aparo
• Editing: Dick Giordano

Captain Marvel Faces Fear!

Story featuring Captain Marvel / Shazam!

Storyline: The living embodiment of Fear causes trouble for Captain Marvel by stirring up a panic with rumors about an atomic bomb in the city.

Credits:

• Pencils: Pete Costanza
• Inks: Pete Costanza
• Colors: Nansi Hoolahan
• Editing: Wendell Crowley

100 Pages of the Greatest Adventures Ever!

Storyline: One panel each previewing the four stories in this issue that were not depicted on the front cover.

Credits:

• Script: Carl Gafford
• Pencils: Keith Giffen
• Inks: Romeo Tanghal
• Letters: Gaspar Saladino

The Story Behind the Stories

Storyline: Paul Levitz gives background information about the Legion-oriented reprints in this issue.

Credits:

• Script: Paul Levitz

The Sinister Lives of Captain Skull!

Story featuring The Spectre

Storyline: The use of an experimental anesthetic on a sniper-shot ambassador causes him to be possessed by his ancestor, an 18th century pirate named Captain Skull who has received strong supernatural powers in the process. Only the Spectre can stand against him.

Credits:

• Script: Gardner Fox
• Pencils: Murphy Anderson
• Inks: Murphy Anderson
• Colors: Jerry Serpe
• Letters: Gaspar Saladino
• Editing: Julius Schwartz

The Legion of Super-Villains!

Story featuring Superman

Storyline: Lex Luthor presumes that the existence of the Legion of Super-Heroes in the future requires a legion of super-villains as well and manages to contact them from his prison cell. They travel into the "past" to free him, and join forces to destroy Superman. However, he foils their plans by removing Saturn Queen's criminal tendencies.

Credits:

• Script: Jerry Siegel
• Pencils: Curt Swan
• Inks: Sheldon Moldoff
• Colors: Jerry Serpe
• Letters: Milt Snapinn
• Editing: Mort Weisinger

Continuing the Legend That Is Adventure Comics

Credits:

• Script: Carl Gafford