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Adventure Comics 232

ADVENTURE COMICS #232

Cover Date: January 1957
Cover Price: $.10
Publication Date: 1956-11-27

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Cover Credits:
Pencils: Curt Swan
Inks: Stan Kaye


Story: "The House Where Superboy Was Born" (12 Pages)

Credits:

StoryJerry Coleman
ArtJohn Sikela
Assistant editingMort Weisinger, George Kashdan
EditingJack Schiff

Feature Character(s):

Superboy (last in Superboy Vol. 1 #54/3; next in flashback in Superman Vol. 1 #111/2)

Supporting Character(s):

Jonathan Kent (last in Superboy Vol. 1 #54/3; next in flashback in Superman Vol. 1 #111/2)
Martha Kent (in between Superboy Vol. 1 #54/3 and #55)

Other Character(s):

Professor Holter (first appearance)
Professor Wilson (first appearance)
an unidentified alien race (first appearance; "strange, flying people")
an unidentified alien race (first appearance; "walking plant life")
an unidentified alien race (first appearance; "fire dwellers" resembling pale white lizards)
an unidentified alien race (first appearance; saved from an approaching comet)

Cameo Appearance(s):

Jor-El (left a message for kal-El)

Location(s):

Space Sector 2813
Krypton (in flashbacks; screen images of "The Last War," a jungle - possibly a precursor to the Scarlet Jungle - and the retelling of a "Moby Dick"-like story, "Kally Jlin")
Space Sector 2814
Earth
Smallville
Krypton Park (first appearance; a memorial park built by Superboy)
a fragment of Kryptonopolis (crashlands on Earth, remarkable intact, later sent back into space by Superboy)
Unidentified Space Sector(s)
four different unidentified planets


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Second Story: "Aquaman Joins the Navy!" (6 Pages)

Credits:

ArtRamona Fradon
Assistant editingMort Weisinger, George Kashdan
EditingJack Schiff

Feature Character(s):

Aquaman (in between issues #231/2 and #233/2; joins the U.S. Navy for a few days to help recruiting)

Supporting Character(s):

Topo (in between issues #231/2 and #233/2)

Other Character(s):

Admiral Hanley (first appearance)
Chief Petty Officer Freems of the U.S.S. Clay (first appearance)
U.S. Navy crewmen

Location(s):

somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean
onboard Admiral Hanley's flagship
onboard the US Navy destroyer the U.S.S. Clay


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Third Story: "The Case of the A-B-C Arrows" (6 Pages)

Credits:

ArtGeorge Papp
EditingJack Schiff

Feature Character(s):

Green Arrow (last in issue #231/3; next in World's Finest Comics #86/3)

Supporting Character(s):

Speedy (last in issue #239/2; next in World's Finest Comics #86/3)

Villain(s):

Barton (first appearance; hypnotizes Green Arrow to make him deploy his arrows in alphabetical order)
various criminals (all using Barton's alphabetized listing of trick arrows to plan their crimes)

Location(s):

Star City (presumed)


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