Adventure Comics 498
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Background
Adventure Comics was the birthplace of the Legion and its longtime home. After almost 500 issues of publication, it became primarily a series of reprints. Featured each month was a chronological re-presentation of the Legion's earliest tales, two in each issue, beginning with their first appearance. This issue presents the 15th and 16th appearances in that chronology.
Reprinted material
Original publication source is noted for each.
- Plastic Man in "Carlton Canary" - Adventure Comics #467 (January, 1980)
- The Legion of Super-Heroes in "The Secret Origin of Bouncing Boy" – Adventure Comics #301 (October, 1962)
- Aquaman in "Come the Revolution" – Aquaman #47 (September/October, 1969)
- Captain Marvel in "The World's Maddest Ghost" – Captain Marvel Adventures #138 (November, 1952)
- Sandman in "The Man Who Knew All the Answers" - Adventure Comics #74 (May, 1942)
- The Legion of Super-Heroes in "Sun-Boy's Lost Power" – Adventure Comics #302 (November, 1962)
- Mary Marvel in "The Thanksgiving Thieves" - Shazam! #10 (February, 1974)
- The Spectre in "The Spectre Means Death" – The Spectre #5 (July/August, 1968)
The Story Behind the Stories
The two Legion reprints included in each issue of the digest-sized Adventure Comics were the feature attraction. As an added bonus to Legion fans, a running commentary about that issue's reprinted Legion stories was provided each month by Paul Levitz, who was the writer of the Legion's current series while the Adventure digests were being produced. Years later, these commentaries are the primary point of interest (other than the reprinted stories themselves), so the full text is provided below:
