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216September 1955
$0.10

Adventure Comics #216

DC · September 1955 · on sale 1955-07-26

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Identification plate

Series
Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series)
Issue
#216
Publication date
September 1955
Key date
1955-09-00
On-sale date
1955-07-26
Indicia publisher
National Comics Publications Inc.
Price
$0.10
Pages
36
Rating
Approved by the Comics Code Authority

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Contents

SeqStoryTypePagesCreditsCharacters
0The Wizard City!cover1pencils: Curt Swan; inks: Stan Kaye; letters: Ira SchnappSuperboy; Superman
2The Wizard Citycomic story12script: Bill Finger; pencils: Curt Swan; inks: George KleinJimmy Olsen; Prof Mark Olsen (intro); Vedders
4-comic story0.67script: Henry Boltinoff; pencils: Henry Boltinoff; inks: Henry Boltinoff; letters: Henry Boltinoff
6The Invasion of the Sea-Mencomic story6pencils: Ramona Fradon; inks: Ramona Fradon
8-comic story1script: Henry Boltinoff; pencils: Henry Boltinoff; inks: Henry Boltinoff; letters: Henry Boltinoff
9Animal Acrobatstext article2script: John Mallon
10The World's Most Dangerous Gamecomic story6pencils: George Papp; inks: George Papp

Plus 7.33 pages of advertisements and other matter across 8 sequences, as published.

Where to read it

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