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202July 1954
$0.10

Adventure Comics #202

DC · July 1954 · on sale 1954-05-24

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Series
Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series)
Issue
#202
Publication date
July 1954
Key date
1954-07-00
On-sale date
1954-05-24
Indicia publisher
National Comics Publications Inc.
Price
$0.10
Pages
44

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Contents

SeqStoryTypePagesCreditsCharacters
0Superboy City, U.S.A.cover1pencils: Win Mortimer; inks: Win MortimerSuperboy [Clark Kent]; Lana Lang
1Superboy Says: "Don't Give Fire a Place to Start!"public service announcement1script: Jack Schiff; pencils: Win Mortimer; inks: Win MortimerSuperboy; members of the Smallville Teen-Age Club
2Superboy City, U.S.A.!comic story12script: Otto Binder; pencils: John Sikela; inks: John SikelaSuperboy [Clark Kent]; Lana Lang
5The Human Hot-Rodders!comic story6script: Otto Binder; pencils: Hy Mankin; inks: Hy Mankin
8Editorial Advisory Boardpromo (ad from the publisher)0.5letters: typeset
9The Menace of the Freak Fish!comic story5.5pencils: Ralph Mayo; inks: Ralph Mayo
11The Fire Shooterstext story2script: Jack Miller; pencils: Raymond Perry; inks: Raymond Perry; colors: Raymond Perry
13Channel C-R-I-M-E!comic story7.67script: Otto Binder; pencils: George Papp; inks: George Papp"Chisel" Chynn
16Now 10ยขpromo (ad from the publisher)1

Plus 7.33 pages of advertisements and other matter across 9 sequences, as published.

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