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ADVENTURE COMICS #290

Cover Date: November 1961
Cover Price: $.10
Publication Date: 1961-11-30

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Cover Credits:
Pencils: Curt Swan
Inks: Stan Kaye

Story: "The Secret of the Seventh Super-Hero!" (14 Pages)

Credits:

Story	Robert Bernstein
Art	George Papp
Lettering	Joe Letterese
Editing	Mort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Superboy (next in Superboy Vol. 1 #93)

Guest Star(s):

Legion of Super-Heroes

Brainiac 5 (in flashback following Action Comics #276/2 and preceding issue #247)

Chameleon Boy (in flashback following flashback in issue #301/2 and preceding issue #247)

Cosmic Boy (last in Superboy Vol. 1 #86/3; also in flashback following flashback in issue #301/2 and preceding issue #247; next in Action Comics #285)

Lightning Lad (last in Superboy Vol. 1 #86/3; also in flashback following Action Comics #276/2 and preceding issue #247; next in Action Comics #285)

Phantom Girl (in flashback following Action Comics #276/2 and preceding issue #247)

Saturn Girl (last in Superboy Vol. 1 #86/3; also in flashback following flashback in issue #301/2 and preceding issue #247; next in Action Comics #285)

Sun Boy (last in Action Comics #276/2; next in Superman Vol. 1 #152)

Supporting Character(s):

Chief Parker (last in Superboy Vol. 1 #92/2; next in issue #293)

Krypto (in between Superboy Vol. 1 #92/2 and #93)

Martha Kent (last in issue #289; next in Superboy Vol. 1 #93/2)

Villain(s):

Sun Boy impostor (first appearance)

Cyclops the Robot (first appearance; destroyed)

Tom Tanner (first appearance; a reform school escapee and lookalike of Clark Kent; is later "turned to good" by Cyclops)

Other Character(s):

a milkman

a train brakeman

students at Smallville High (Eddie named)

Location(s):

Space Sector 2814

Earth

Maple Grove (in the 20th Century)

Metropolis (in the 30th Century)

Legion Headquarters

Smallville (in the 20th Century)

the polar ice cap

the South Pacific

Unidentified Space Sector

Xanthu

The Timestream

Story Reprinted in:

Superboy Vol. 1 #147/5 (May-June 1968)

Adventure Comics #495 (January 1983)

Legion of Super-Heroes Archives #1 (1991)

Superboy #147 May-June 1968 Replica Edition ([January] 2003)

Showcase Presents: Legion of Super-Heroes #1 ([April] 2007)

Legion of Super-Heroes: The Silver Age Omnibus #1 (2017)

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Second Story: "The Invasion of the Bizarro World!" (11 Pages)

Credits:

Story	Jerry Siegel
Art	John Forte
Editing	Mort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Bizarro (in between issues #289/2 and #291/2)

Supporting Character(s):

Bizarro-Lois (in between issues #289/2 and #291/2)

Bizarro-Junior No. 1 (in between issues #289/2 and #292/2)

Bizarro-Krypto (last in issue #289/2; next in Superman Vol. 1 #150)

Villain(s):

Living Blue Kryptonite creatures (first appearance of all)

Other Character(s):

Bizarros (many die)

Bizarro Mayor

Bizarro Hipster No. 1

the Bizarro Cool Cat Combo

Bizarro-Loises

"Weep-and-Wail" Bizarro-Lois

Bizarro, Juniors

Bizarro-Jimmy Olsen

Bizarro-Perry White

Location(s):

Space Sector 1482

Bizarro World

Bizarro City

Fourtriss uv Bizarro

Comment(s):

This story takes place on Christmas, July 4th, on the Bizarro World.

Story Reprinted in:

Best of DC #36 (May 1983)

Superman: Tales of the Bizarro World ([September] 2000)

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