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Issue Details

Issue #437
Published January-February 1975
Cover Price 0.25 USD
Pages 36
Editing Joe Orlando (Editor); Paul Levitz (Assistant Editor)
Notes Comic title appears (on cover only) as Weird Adventure Comics.

Cover Details

Characters The Spectre [Jim Corrigan]
Genre superhero; occult
Pencils Jim Aparo (signed)
Inks Jim Aparo
Notes Comic title appears (on cover only) as Weird Adventure Comics.
Reprinted in Shock Classics (Classics/Williams, 1972 series) #46

13 page The Spectre story "The Human Bombs and... the Spectre"

Characters The Spectre [Jim Corrigan]; Gwendolyn Sterling
Genre superhero; occult
Script Michael Fleisher; Russell Carley (script continuity)
Pencils Ernie Chan [as Ernie Chua]
Inks Jim Aparo
Letters Ben Oda
Reprinted in Wrath of the Spectre (DC, 1988 series) #3 (July 1988).

6 page Aquaman story "A Quiet Day in Atlantis"

Characters Aquaman; Black Manta; Mera
Genre superhero
Script Paul Levitz
Pencils Mike Grell
Inks Mike Grell
Colors John Albano Jr.
Notes Paul Levitz, in an interview with Rik Offenberger published at ComicsBulletin on August 20, 2003, talks about this story; his first solo super-hero writer assignment: "My first stories were actually in Weird Mystery and Ghost Castle; I only "graduated" to Aquaman in Adventure thanks to Bill Finger. Bill had come in on a Friday to deliver, and was supposed to have two scripts, but only had one done. The check he wanted to pick up was for both, and although Joe [Orlando] wasn't in, I wasn't going to hold back a paycheck for Batman's co-creator... even though Bill was legendary for delivering late and having excuses. But Bill never delivered that story because he died, and by the rules of the time, I was responsible for making up the pages. I asked Joe to let me do something more fun than a mystery story since I had to do it free, and he let me have the Aquaman assignment, and I got to work with Mike Grell. What fun!"

Half page Seven Soldiers of Victory promo (ad from the publisher) "A Never Before Published Classic!!!"

Characters Seven Soldiers of Victory [Vigilante; Shining Knight; Crimson Avenger; Green Arrow; Speedy; Stripesy; Star-Spangled Kid]
Genre superhero
Pencils Jim Aparo
Inks Jim Aparo
Notes Promo for the Golden Age reprint in the next issue.

1 page Dateline: Adventure letters page "Dateline: Adventure"

Letters Typeset
Notes LOC from readers Bob Rodi, J. Edward Planck and Scott Gibson.