Adventure Comics 495

Adventure Comics #495 Preboot » Pre-Crisis Reprint Cover by Ross Andru and Dick Giordano Story title Various Previous story Adventure Comics #494 (previous chronological reprints) Next story Adventure Comics #496 (next chronological reprints) Cover date January 1983 Creators Writer(s) n/a Penciller(s) n/a Inker(s) n/a Letterer(s) n/a Colourist(s) n/a Editor(s) Carl Gafford Cover artist(s) Ross Andru and Dick Giordano

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 9th and 10th appearances in that chronology.

Reprinted material

Original publication source is noted for each.

• The Challengers of the Unknown in "Yesterdays Clues!" - New material
• Superboy and Sun Boy in "The Secret of the Seventh Super-Hero!" – Adventure Comics #290 (September, 1961)
• Aquaman in "Underworld Reward!" (Part 1)– Aquaman #44 (March/April, 1969)
• Shazam in "The Man Without a World!" – Captain Marvel Adventures #141 (February, 1953)
• Superboy and the The Legion in "The Legion of Super-Traitors!" – Adventure Comics #293 (February, 1962)
• The Spectre in "Die, Spectre -- Again!" – The Spectre #2 (January/February, 1968)