Adventure Comics 499
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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 17th and 18th appearances in that chronology.
Reprinted material
Original publication source is noted for each.
- Plastic Man in "Whirling Dervish" - Adventure Comics #468 (February, 1980)
- The Legion of Super-Heroes in "The Fantastic Spy" – Adventure Comics #303 (December, 1962)
- Aquaman in "A Kingdom To Re-Build" – Aquaman #48 (November/December, 1969)
- Captain Marvel in "The Talking Tiger" – Captain Marvel Adventures #50 (December, 1945)
- Sandman in "Villain's Valhalla" - Adventure Comics #75 (June, 1942)
- The Legion of Super-Heroes in "The Stolen Super-Powers" – Adventure Comics #304 (January, 1963)
- Captain Marvel in "The Man in the Moon" – Captain Marvel Adventures #143 (April, 1953)
- The Spectre in "Pilgrim of Peril" – The Spectre #6 (September/October, 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:
