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Issue Details

Issue #247
Published April 1958
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Whitney Ellsworth (credited); Jack Schiff (Managing Editor); Mort Weisinger (story editor); George Kashdan (story editor)

Cover Details - "The Legion of Super-Heroes!"

Characters Superboy; Legion of Super-Heroes [Cosmic Boy; Lightning Lad [as Lightning Boy]; Saturn Girl]
Genre superhero
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Stan Kaye
Reprinted in DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest (DC, 1980 series) #1; in Legion of Super-Heroes Archives, The (DC, 1991 series) #1 [redrawn]; in DC Silver Age Classics Adventure Comics 247 (DC, 1992 series) #nn; in Millennium Edition: Adventure Comics No. 247 (DC, 2000 series) #nn; in World's Best Comics: Silver Age Sampler (DC, 2004 series) #nn; in Showcase Presents: Legion of Super-Heroes (DC, 2007 series) #1 ([April] 2007); in Legion of Super-Heroes: 1,050 Years of the Future (DC, 2008 series) #[nn] ([June] 2008)

12 page Superboy story "The Legion of Super-Heroes"

Characters Superboy; Legion of Super-Heroes [Cosmic Boy; Lightning Lad [as Lightning Boy]; Saturn Girl] (intro); Jonathan Kent (cameo)
Synopsis Three teens from the future offer Superboy membership in their super-hero club. But when Superboy fails to complete three simple tasks, the Legionnaires pretend to reject him, until they reveal that the three tasks were merely initiation pranks which proved he is a good sport.
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Al Plastino
Inks Al Plastino
Editing Mort Weisinger
Notes First appearance of the Legion of Super-Heroes. Lightning Lad is called Lightning Boy in this story. Several other unidentified Legionnaires appear in the story. The Legionnaires are not yet in their regular costumes.
Reprinted in Superman Annual (DC, 1960 series) #6 (Winter 1963) [Lightning Boy changed to Lightning Lad and final page cut]; in DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest (DC, 1980 series) #1 (March-April 1980); in Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #491 (September 1982); in Legion of Super-Heroes Archives, The (DC, 1991 series) #1; in DC Silver Age Classics Adventure Comics 247 (DC, 1992 series) #nn; in Millennium Edition: Adventure Comics No. 247 (DC, 2000 series) #nn (November 2000); in World's Best Comics: Silver Age Sampler (DC, 2004 series) #nn; in Showcase Presents: Legion of Super-Heroes (DC, 2007 series) #1 ([April] 2007) [black and white]; in Legion of Super-Heroes: 1,050 Years of the Future (DC, 2008 series) #[nn] ([June] 2008); in Adventure Comics (DC, 2009 series) #0 (April 2009).

1 page Challengers of the Unknown promo (ad from the publisher) "Challengers of the Unknown #1"

Genre Adventure
Notes House ad.

1 page Read 'Em and Laugh text article

Letters typeset
Notes A collection of quick jokes.
Reprinted in Millennium Edition: Adventure Comics No. 247 (DC, 2000 series) #nn

1 page Little Pete filler "Walking the Dog"

Characters Little Pete; Mister Roberts
Synopsis Pete figures out an easier way to walk a dog.
Genre gag
Script Henry Boltinoff
Pencils Henry Boltinoff
Inks Henry Boltinoff
Letters Henry Boltinoff
Reprinted in Millennium Edition: Adventure Comics No. 247 (DC, 2000 series) #nn

6 page Green Arrow story "The 13 Superstition Arrows"

Characters Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]; Speedy [Roy Harper]; C. M. Hawkins
Synopsis To secure a $5,000,000 bequest to charity, Green Arrow must use 13 trick arrows with gimmicks associated with bad luck.
Genre superhero
Script France Herron
Pencils George Papp
Inks George Papp
Notes Writer id by Martin O'Hearn. GA uses an Ace of Spades Arrow, a Ladder Arrow, a Black Cat Arrow, a Salt Arrow, and a Number 13 Arrow.
Reprinted in DC Silver Age Classics Adventure Comics 247 (DC, 1992 series) #[nn]; in Millennium Edition: Adventure Comics No. 247 (DC, 2000 series) #nn

1 page Casey the Cop filler "Money"

Characters Casey the Cop
Synopsis Casey plays a trick with some play money.
Genre gag
Script Henry Boltinoff
Pencils Henry Boltinoff
Inks Henry Boltinoff
Letters Henry Boltinoff
Reprinted in Millennium Edition: Adventure Comics No. 247 (DC, 2000 series) #nn

6 page Aquaman story "Aquaman's Super Sea-Squad"

Characters Aquaman
Synopsis Aquaman has to carefully deliver a nuclear projectile to the military before it detonates.
Genre superhero
Script Jack Miller
Pencils Ramona Fradon
Inks Ramona Fradon
Notes Writer id by Martin O'Hearn.
Reprinted in DC Silver Age Classics Adventure Comics 247 (DC, 1992 series) #[nn]; in Millennium Edition: Adventure Comics No. 247 (DC, 2000 series) #nn