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Adventure Comics #479 (1981) · The Collector

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Adventure Comics (1938)
#479

DC Comics#479

Adventure Comics

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Adventure Comics #479

To Save a World! / As the Silver Fog Rolls In...

Publisher: DC Comics
Cover date: March 1981
Cover price: $0.50
Pages: 36
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Key issue

1st appearance of The Red Death
1st appearance of The Silver Fog
1st appearance of Frannie Nash
1st appearance of Glinda Parks

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DirectMain
Printing not stated · $0.50
No barcode recorded
British
Printing not stated · GB market · £0.15
No barcode recorded

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Grand Comics Database issue 35215

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Chris and Vicki meet the Flying Buttress and G.L.U.N.K. who send them on a mission to retrieve important control rods to save a planet.

Newsstand

Printing not stated · $0.50

Credits

Writer: Marv Wolfman
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inkers: Larry Mahlstedt, Dennis Jensen
Letterers: Todd Klein, Ben Oda
Covers: Carmine Infantino, Bob Smith
Cover colors: Tatjana Wood
Editor: Jack C. Harris
Managing editor: Joe Orlando

Characters

Frannie Nash· 1st appearance
Glinda Parks· 1st appearance
The Red Death· 1st appearance
The Silver Fog· 1st appearance
Bradford Mann
Chris King
Chris King's H-Dial aliases
Elizabeth King
G.L.U.N.K.
Gregory King
Hal Kramer
Roger Dunbar
Sam Toth
The Flying Buttress
Vicki Grant
Vicki Grant's H-Dial aliases

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