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Adventure Comics 269

ADVENTURE COMICS #269

Cover Date: February 1960
Cover Price: $.10
Publication Date: 1959-12-31

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Cover Credits:
Pencils: Curt Swan
Inks: Sheldon Moldoff


Story: "Krypto's Mean Master!" (12 Pages)

Credits:

StoryJerry Siegel
ArtGeorge Papp
LetteringJoe Letterese
EditingMort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Superboy (last in issue #268; next in Superboy Vol. 1 #79)

Supporting Character(s):

Jonathan Kent (last in issue #268; next in Superboy Vol. 1 #79/2)
Martha Kent (last in issue #268; next in Superboy Vol. 1 #79)
Krypto (last in issue #268; next in Superboy Vol. 1 #80/2)

Villain(s):

Solar Boy (first appearance; a teen boy who gets Kryptonian-like powers from standing in a ray booth (created by his father) everyday; also in flashback to an earlier meeting with Superboy and Krypto; cabinets destroyed)

Location(s):

Smallville
Unidentified Space Sector
Solar Boy's unnamed world (first appearance; earthlike slightly more advanced than 21st Century Earth)

Story Reprinted in:

Superman Family #167/4 (February-March 1975)


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Second Story: "The Comic Book Archer!" (7 Pages)

Credits:

StoryRobert Bernstein
ArtLee Elias
EditingMort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Green Arrow (last in issue #268/2; next in World's Finest Comics #107/3)

Supporting Character(s):

Speedy (last in issue #268/2; next in World's Finest Comics #107/3)

Villain(s):

Unnamed criminals (first appearance for all)

Other Character(s):

M. Sloane (first appearance; editor at All-Star Comics, a comic magazine company)
Bill Nixon (first appearance; a young cartoonist who wants to sell his feature "The Magician Archer" to All-Star)

Location(s):

Star City

Comment(s):

All-Star Comics publish The Golden Avenger, Amazing Amazon Comics, a Western feature and a mermaid feature.

Story Reprinted in:

Showcase Presents Green Arrow #1 (2006)


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Second Story: "The Kid from Atlantis!" (7 Pages)

Credits:

StoryRobert Bernstein
ArtRamona Fradon
EditingMort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Aquaman (adopts Aqualad in this story; last in issue #268/3; next in Brave and the Bold #28)

Supporting Character(s):

Aqualad (first appearance; a young boy exiled from "Atlantis", due to his purple eyes; next in issue #270/3)
Topo (in between issues #267/2 and #270/3)

Location(s):

Atlantis

Story Reprinted in:

Showcase #79/2 (December 1968)
DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest #9 (May 1981)
The Aquaman Archives #1 (2003)
Showcase Presents Aquaman #1 (2007)
Aquaman: A Celebration of 75 Years (2016)


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