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Adventure Comics #219 (1955) · The Collector

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Adventure Comics (1938)
#219

DC Comics#219

Adventure Comics

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Adventure Comics #219

The Gorilla with X-Ray Eyes! / The Greatest Show on Water / The Human Chess Game

Publisher: DC Comics
Cover date: December 1955
On sale: Oct 25, 1955
Cover price: $0.10
Pages: 36
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

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Credits

Writers: Otto Binder, Henry Boltinoff
Pencillers: Curt Swan, Henry Boltinoff, Ramona Fradon, George Papp
Inkers: George Klein, Henry Boltinoff, Ramona Fradon, George Papp
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Grand Comics Database issue 12521

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Superboy rescues Professor Lang from a big gorilla and captures it for an exhibition. But a canny crook notices the gorilla's eyes flash during lightning flashes, so deduces it has x-ray vision. They steal the gorilla to burn through walls and safes. Superboy can't stop it because he's weakened by the glare. Lang reveals it drank kryptonite-infused water in Africa. Superboy finally builds a giant battery to "defuse" the gorilla, and the effect wears off.

Henry Boltinoff

Covers

Curt Swan, Stan Kaye

Editor

Whitney Ellsworth

Cover letters

Ira Schnapp

Managing editor

Jack Schiff

Story editors

Mort Weisinger, George Kashdan

Characters

"Doc" Baird
Chandu
Jonathan Kent
Lana Lang
Professor John Lang

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