American Update: Adventure Comics 1949/1950
*DC: Five vintage issues of Adventure Comics from 1949 and 1950 starring Superboy are new in this week. The title starred Superboy, but perhaps of greater interest than even the exploits of the Boy of Steel are the variety of back-up series- Green Arrow, Aquaman, Johnny Quick (the other Fastest Man Alive…) and the Shining knight. These issues were published in the aftermath of the Golden Age, as it were, and are the last vestiges of the old-school anthologies. The low grade of these issues, between Poor and Good, makes them particularly affordable and appealing to collectors of ‘reading copies’, and a pleasant bonus is the artwork on the Shining Knight stories (in #157 & #159) by a promising youngster named Frank Frazetta, who we think may have a bit of a career in front of him.