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187April 1953
$0.10

Adventure Comics #187

DC · April 1953 · on sale 1953-02-23

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Series
Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series)
Issue
#187
Publication date
April 1953
Key date
1953-04-00
On-sale date
1953-02-23
Indicia publisher
National Comics Publications Inc.
Price
$0.10
Pages
44

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Contents

SeqStoryTypePagesCreditsCharacters
0The 25th Century Superboy!cover1pencils: Curt Swan; inks: Ray BurnleySuperboy
1Now More Than Everpromo (ad from the publisher)1
2The 25th Century Superboycomic story12pencils: Curt Swan; inks: John FischettiSuperboy; Lana Lang; Elra
3-comic story0.5script: Henry Boltinoff; pencils: Henry Boltinoff; inks: Henry Boltinoff; letters: Henry Boltinoff
5Superman Says: "People Are People!"public service announcement1script: Jack Schiff; pencils: Win Mortimer; inks: Win Mortimer; letters: Ira Schnapp
6The Queen of the Seacomic story5.67pencils: Ramona Fradon; inks: Ramona Fradon
9Editorial Advisory Boardpromo (ad from the publisher)0.5
10-comic story1script: Henry Boltinoff; pencils: Henry Boltinoff; inks: Henry Boltinoff; letters: Henry Boltinoff
11The Wizard of Westerlycomic story6pencils: Ralph Mayo; inks: Sy Barry
12-comic story2script: Henry Boltinoff; pencils: Henry Boltinoff; inks: Henry Boltinoff; letters: Henry Boltinoff
13Beasts from the Briny Deeptext article2script: Jack Edwards; pencils: Raymond Perry; inks: Raymond Perry
14The Downfall of Green Arrowcomic story7.67pencils: George Papp; inks: George Papp

Plus 3.66 pages of advertisements and other matter across 6 sequences, as published.

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