Adventure Comics Featuring Superboy #1
Color Comics Pty. Ltd.
Australia.
![Untitled [How Clark Kent Met Lois Lane]](/image/1394/page-1-adventure-comics-featuring-superboy-color-comics-1949-series.jpg "Untitled [How Clark Kent Met Lois Lane]")
Issue contents
Cover
Untitled [How Clark Kent Met Lois Lane]
(Superboy)
Cover, 1 page
"An exclusive adventure of Superman when he was a boy!"
Featuring
- Feature
- Superboy
- Genre
- Superhero
- Characters
- Superboy; Lois Lane (1st Superboy cover)
Credits
- Art
- Win Mortimer, line art
- Colours
- , colourist
- Text
- , letterer
- Editing
- Whitney Ellsworth, original editor [credited]
- Jack Schiff, original editor [attributed] (actual)
Reprint history
1"… always say 'Kellog's' before you say Corn Flakes."
Details
- Printed
- 1949
- More...
- Breakfast at the Boarding School
Notes
This advertisement is probably by Ron Vivian.
2Featuring
- Feature
- Superboy
- Genre
- Superhero
- Characters
- Superboy; Lois Lane; Editor Morton
Credits
- Writing
- Bill Finger, scripter
- Art
- Al Wenzel, penciller
- George Roussos, inker
- Colours
- , colourist
- Text
- , letterer
- Editing
- Whitney Ellsworth, original editor [credited]
- Jack Schiff, original editor [attributed] (actual)
Reprint history
- First print
-
Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #128 (May 1948) — How Clark Kent Met Lois Lane
- Also printed
-
Superboy Adventure Book (Atlas Publishing, 1955 series) #1956-57 (1956) — How Clark kent Met Lois Lane
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Colossal Comic (Colour Comics, 1958 series) #14 ([September 1960?]) — How Clark Kent Met Lois Lane
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Superman From the Thirties to the Seventies (Crown, 1971 series) (1971) — How Clark Kent Met Lois Lane
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Superman From the Thirties to the Eighties (Crown, 1983 series) (1983) — How Clark Kent Met Lois Lane
Synopsis
Clark wins a contest to work as a cub reporter on the Daily Planet for one week. And so does Lois Lane.
3Featuring
- Feature
- Superboy
- Genre
- Superhero
- Characters
- Superboy [Clark Kent]; Miss Shipley; Ed Dexter; Mark Rice; Paul High; Peter Wilysmyk
Credits
- Writing
- Bill Finger, scripter
- Art
- Al Wenzel, penciller
- George Roussos, inker
- Text
- , letterer
- Editing
- Whitney Ellsworth, original editor [credited]
- Jack Schiff, original editor [attributed] (actual)
Reprint history
Synopsis
Miss Shipley wants to retire and Superboy tries to find a gift for her. She wants to see her four most favorite pupils again.
Notes
This story is printed in colour.
4"The secret of good shooting, Oscar, is the ability to concentrate."
Featuring
- Feature
- Hambone the Hunter
- Genre
- Humour
Credits
5Featuring
- Feature
- Lefty
- Genre
- Humour
Credits
- Writing
- Yaroslav Horak, scripter [signed as Horak]
- Art
- Yaroslav Horak, line art [signed as Horak]
- Colours
- , colourist
- Text
- Yaroslav Horak , letterer
6Featuring
- Feature
- Aquaman
- Genre
- Superhero
- Characters
- Aquaman; Ark the Seal; Frank Fogarty; Duke
Credits
- Writing
- , scripter
- Art
- John Daly, line art
- Text
- , letterer
- Editing
- Whitney Ellsworth, original editor [credited]
- Jack Schiff, original editor [attributed] (actual)
Reprint history
- First print
-
Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #129 (June 1948) — The Treasure Beneath the Lake!
- Also printed
-
Mammoth Comic Annual (Colour Comics, 1956?) ([December 1956?]) — The Treasure Beneath the Lake!
Notes
Story is reprinted with greyscale toning (not in colour).
7"--Huh waiting in the queue is getting on my nerves…"
Featuring
- Feature
- Swooney
- Genre
- Humour
Credits
- Writing
- Yaroslav Horak, scripter [signed as Horak]
- Art
- Yaroslav Horak, line art [signed as Horak]
- Text
- Yaroslav Horak , letterer
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10Notes
There is no 'Color Comics' branding on this issue. The first two Superboy stories are in colour. The stories use the same colour scheme as the US printing, although minor differences suggest it has been recoloured in Australia.