CATALOG RECORD

Adventure Comics #495

DC · Series began 1938 · January 1983

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Dates

Cover date: January 1983
On sale: September 14, 1982
Pages: 100

Editions and covers (3)

Copies of #495 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.

Direct edition$1.25 cover

Direct

No UPC barcode in the corner box: direct editions show artwork, a logo or a blank box there.
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Newsstand edition$1.25 cover

Newsstand

A UPC barcode in the cover's corner box.

Barcode 0709893170901 · shared with another edition
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Canadian price edition1.50 CAD cover

Canadian

Printed cover price 1.50 CAD.

Barcode 0709893170901 · shared with another edition
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Creators

pencils: Ross Andru, Alex Toth, George Papp, Jim Aparo, C. C. Beck, Curt Swan, Jack Kirby, Neal Adams, Keith Giffeninks: Dick Giordano, Frank Giacoia, George Papp, Jim Aparo, C. C. Beck, George Klein, Joe Simon, Neal Adams, Romeo Tanghalcolors: Anthony Tollin, Carl Gafford, Bob LeRose, Owen Blessitt, Nansi Hoolahan, Jerry Serpeletters: Gaspar Saladino, Milt Snapinn, Joe Letterese, Jim Aparo, Howard Fergusonscript: Bob Rozakis, Robert Bernstein, Steve Skeates, Otto Binder, Jerry Siegel, Jack Kirby, Gardner Fox, Paul Levitzediting: Carl Gafford, Mort Weisinger, Dick Giordano, Whitney Ellsworth, Julius Schwartz

Stories

Yesterday's Clues! · 9 pages
The not-yet-Challengers hang in Rocky's apartment, reading and paying bills. Only Professor Haley frets about the jet sabotage. Ace wonders if he's the target. Red recounts how he was installing a radio tower in South America and almost killed by a dictator. Professor Haley recounts how he helped rescue a sunken statue. Professor Haley had inherited a fortune that cut his cousin Freddie out of the will. Professor Haley needs to talk to Freddie. But first, Red has something to confess...
The Secret of the Seventh Super-Hero! · 14 pages
Superboy meets new Legion member Sun Boy (who is later revealed to be an impostor). Meanwhile, reform school escapee Tom Tanner (a double for Clark Kent) tries to take over Clark's life in Smallville.
Underworld Reward! · 22 pages
Aquaman finds himself in conflict with a gang of unnamed criminals.
The Man Without a World! · Captain Marvel · 5 pages
Sivana tricks Captain Marvel into believing that he killed all the inhabitants of a planet.
The Legion of Super-Traitors! · 14 pages
Superboy is attacked by his friends in the Legion, under the evil influence of the Brain-Globes of Rambat. After the Legionnaires regain their senses, they gather four super-pets to defeat the Brain-Globes.
Crime Carnival! · The Sandman · 10 pages
Sandman and Sandy battle the villains of the Mammoth Carnival.
Die, Spectre--Again! · 22 pages
The evil etheric body of magician Dirk Rawley emerges and forces him into crime.
The Story Behind the Stories · 1 pages
Background information on the two Superboy/Legion reprints in this issue.