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ADVENTURE COMICS #292

Cover Date: January 1962
Cover Price: $.12
Publication Date: 1961-11-30

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Cover Credits:
Pencils: Curt Swan
Inks: Sheldon Moldoff (?)

Story: "The Laughing Stock of Smallville" (13 Pages)

Credits:

Story	Bill Finger
Art	Al Plastino
Editing	Mort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Superboy (last in Superboy Vol. 1 #94/2; next in issue #293; also in flashback, last/next in ???)

Supporting Character(s):

Krypto (last in Superboy Vol. 1 #94/2; next in issue #293)

Jonathan Kent (in between issues #291 and #293)

Martha Kent (last in Superboy Vol. 1 #94; next in issue #293)

Lana Lang (last in Superboy Vol. 1 #94/2; next in issue #293)

Villain(s):

Lex Luthor (in between Superboy Vol. 1 #92/2 and #96; also in flashback, last/next in ???)

Other Character(s):

citizens of Smallville

Location(s):

Space Sector 2814

Earth

Smallville

Unidentified Space Sector

an unidentified planet

Comment(s):

The element "Superboy-X" is discovered on an unidentified planet. It is later destroyed.

Story Reprinted in:

Best of DC #15 (August 1981)

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Second Story: "Bizarro Creates a Monster!" (11 Pages)

Credits:

Story	Jerry Siegel
Art	John Forte
Editing	Mort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Bizarro (last in issue #291/2; next in Superman Vol. 1 #150)

Supporting Character(s):

Bizarro-Lois (last in issue #291/2; next in Superman Vol. 1 #150)

Bizarro-Junior No. 1 (in between issues #290/2 and #293/2)

Other Character(s):

Bizarro-Kltpzyxm (in between issues #288/2 and #294/2)

Bizarro-Lana Lang (first appearance; next in issue #294/2)

Bizarro-Lucy Lane (first appearance; next in ???)

an "insane" Bizarro-Lois (first appearance)

a caveman-like alien (first appearance)

Sapollo (first appearance; created as an "ugly" duplicate of the caveman, later merges back with the caveman)

Location(s):

Space Sector 1482

Bizarro World

Bizarro City

Fourtriss uv Bizarro

the Upright Tower of Pisa

Unidentified Space Sector

an unidentified planet

Story Reprinted in:

Superman Vol. 1 #202/7 (December 1967-January 1968)

Superman: Tales of the Bizarro World ([October] 2000)

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