Adventure Comics #457 (1978) for Sale - Where to Buy

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	-	cover	1	pencils: Al Milgrom; inks: Al Milgrom; colors: Tatjana Wood; letters: Gaspar Saladino	Superboy; Lester Wallace
1	A Fire Within	comic story	11	script: David Michelinie; pencils: Joe Staton; inks: Jack Abel; colors: Gene D'Angelo; letters: Milt Snapinn	Superboy [Clark Kent; Kal-El]; Jonathan Kent; Martha Kent; Lana Lang; Police Chief Parker; Bash Bashford; Lester Wallace (introduction); Amanda Wallace (introduction); Zan-Em (behind-the-scenes only, introduced next issue)
3	Volume 78 Issue 7 - Week of February 13, 1978	in-house column	1	editing: Bob Rozakis
4	The Symbiont Syndrome!	comic story	6	script: Len Wein; pencils: Joe Orlando; inks: Frank Giacoia; colors: Glynis Wein; letters: Shelly Leferman	Eclipso; Professor Simon Bennett; Mona Bennett; Bruce Gordon
5	-	letters page	0.75	script: Paul Levitz
6	-	statement of ownership	0.25	letters: typeset

Plus 1 page of advertisements and other matter across 1 sequence, as published.

Edition	How to tell
British	price 0.12 GBP

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