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Adventure Comics (1938 1st Series) 290 graded by CGC

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    • Paper: Off white to white
    • Slab: See item notes
    • Major front/back scratch(es), longer than 1" and deep.
    • Label #1040797019
    • This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($8.85) will be charged at checkout.

    Last 10-cent cover-priced issue. Cover pencils by Curt Swan, inks by Stan Kaye. 9th appearance of the Legion of Super-Heroes in The Secret of the Seventh Super-Hero!, script by Robert Bernstein, pencils by George Papp, inks by George Papp; A fake Sun Boy comes to Smallville asking Superboy's help in assembling a super-weapon; Meanwhile Tom Tanner, an escapee from reform school, takes over Clark Kent's identity. Ollie humor page by Henry Boltinoff. The Invasion of the Bizarro World--Tales of the Bizarro World, script by Jerry Siegel, art by John Forte; The Bizarros celebrate when their world is invaded by animated Blue Kryptonite statues, until the invaders try to make it round again; Then war breaks out. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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