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40February 1960
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My Greatest Adventure #40

DC · February 1960 · on sale 1959-12-08

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Series
My Greatest Adventure (DC, 1955 series)
Issue
#40
Publication date
February 1960
Key date
1960-02-00
On-sale date
1959-12-08
Indicia publisher
National Comics Publications Inc.
Price
$0.10
Pages
36
Rating
Approved by the Comics Code Authority

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Contents

SeqStoryTypePagesCreditsCharacters
0We Found the Ice-Age Giant!cover1pencils: Bob Brown; inks: Bob Brown; letters: Ira Schnapp
3We Battled the Storm Creaturecomic story7.67pencils: Howard Purcell; inks: Howard PurcellBill; Duke Hanson
4-statement of ownership0.33letters: typeset
5Meteor Showerscartoon0.5script: Mort Drucker; pencils: Mort Drucker; inks: Mort Drucker; letters: Mort Drucker
7Superboy Says: "It's Fun to Help Others!"public service announcement1script: Jack Schiff; pencils: Curt Swan; inks: Stan Kaye; letters: Ira SchnappClark Kent, Superboy
8Introducing... the Justice League of Americapromo (ad from the publisher)1pencils: Mike Sekowsky; inks: Murphy Anderson; letters: Ira Schnapp
9I Led the Sinister Safaricomic story8.67pencils: George Roussos; inks: George Roussos; letters: Stan StarkmanRon Hunter; Peggy Meade; Walter Meade
10Your Passport to Amazing Adventures!promo (ad from the publisher)0.33
11-comic story1script: Henry Boltinoff; pencils: Henry Boltinoff; inks: Henry Boltinoff; letters: Henry BoltinoffPeter Puptent
12Super Speed Was My Businesstext story1script: Jack Miller
13We Found the Ice-Age Giantcomic story7.67pencils: Ruben Moreira; inks: Ruben Moreira; letters: Stan StarkmanMike; Ray; Mike; Sgt. Allen Powers; Chief Paul Daniels; Morgan
14Three Exciting New Adventurespromo (ad from the publisher)0.33pencils: Sheldon Moldoff; inks: Sheldon Moldoff; letters: Ira Schnapp

Plus 5.5 pages of advertisements and other matter across 8 sequences, as published.

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