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Adventure Comics #225 (1956) · The Collector

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Adventure Comics (1938)
#225

DC Comics#225

Adventure Comics

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Adventure Comics #225

The Bird with Super Powers / The Undersea School / The Useless Arrows

Publisher: DC Comics
Cover date: June 1956
On sale: Apr 24, 1956
Cover price: $0.10
Pages: 36
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

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Credits

Writers: Al Schwartz, Henry Boltinoff, Jack Miller
Pencillers: Curt Swan, Ramona Fradon, Henry Boltinoff, George Papp
Inkers: George Klein, Ramona Fradon, Henry Boltinoff, George Papp
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Grand Comics Database issue 12876

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Professor Lang brings back a mynah bird that seems to have super-powers and human intelligence. It's stolen by a crook who paints it in Superboy colors to steal, so Superboy is blamed. Turns out the bird drank from the same African pool as "Chandu, the Gorilla with X-Ray Eyes" (seen in Adventure Comics 219). Superboy over-exposes the bird to the fallen meteorite and it reverts to a normal bird.

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

Jonathan Kent
Lana Lang
Martha Kent
Professor Lang
Superboy

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