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Adventure Comics #197

Adventure Comics #197

CGC Census

18
Total Graded
0
9.8 NM/MT
1
8.0 VF

Clark Kent turns bad, shooting spitballs and mouthing off. He's asked to join the Skull and Crossbones Gang, and (barely) passes the initiation. (These \"gangs\" are boys on tricked-out bicycles.) Their enemies are the Red Dragons, and both pull pranks. Clark/Superboy gently steers them by making a statue talk, inadvertently helping an old woman and her shoe store, then sends them carrying water on their bikes to battle a raging wildfire. Both gangs get awards, and will now compete to out-good-deed each other! And Clark is thanked by the principal for his undercover operation.

Cover Date

February 1, 1954

On Sale Date

December 21, 1953

Pages

44

Cover Price

$0.10

Editor

Jack Schiff

Characters

Superboy

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