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227August 1956
$0.10

Adventure Comics #227

DC · August 1956 · on sale 1956-06-26

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Series
Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series)
Issue
#227
Publication date
August 1956
Key date
1956-08-00
On-sale date
1956-06-26
Indicia publisher
National Comics Publications Inc.
Price
$0.10
Pages
36
Rating
Approved by the Comics Code Authority

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Contents

SeqStoryTypePagesCreditsCharacters
0Good Samaritan of Smallvillecover1pencils: Curt Swan; inks: Stan Kaye; letters: Ira Schnapp
2The Good Samaritan of Smallvillecomic story12script: Otto Binder; pencils: Curt Swan; inks: George Klein
4Peter Porkchops Solves "The Case of the Careless Camper!"public service announcement1script: Jack Schiff; pencils: Win Mortimer; inks: Win Mortimer; letters: Ira Schnapp
5A Day in the Life of Aquamancomic story6pencils: Ramona Fradon; inks: Ramona FradonAquaman
6-promo (ad from the publisher)1letters: typeset
7-comic story1script: Henry Boltinoff; pencils: Henry Boltinoff; inks: Henry Boltinoff; letters: Henry Boltinoff
8Short-Cut to Dangertext story2script: John Maxwell; pencils: Raymond Perry; inks: Raymond Perry; colors: Raymond Perry
9The Green Arrow Mystery Cardscomic story6pencils: George Papp; inks: George Papp

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

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