Adventure Comics # 269, February, 1960

More Krypto and yet another mean space kid already. 

Normally this fun Green Arrow tale about comic books would be the one we'd share here but...

Finally! After all these years! Aquaman gets his sidekick! Meet Aqualad.

Adventure Comics # 268, January, 1960

Interestingly enough, just prior to introducing a sidekick for Aquaman after all those years--as stated in this issue's letters column--we get to see Aquaman himself when he was a boy--Aquaboy.

Note also the two Daisy ads again as we build toward Christmas.

Adventure Comics # 267-December, 1959

They're back! On the Swan cover they look like the 30th Century friends we would come to know but inside they aren't quite there yet. The story doesn't help. This has to be one of the worst Superboy stories of the ADVENTURE run to date! Still, another step toward the LSH strip.

Two Daisy ads! Wow. They were spending a LOT of money to get kids to want guns... and apparently rockets.

Adventure Comics # 266, November, 1959

Krypto's highlighted yet again. You have to remember that REX THE WONDER DOG had just been canceled a month earlier after a healthy 46 issue run. Add TV dogs like Rin Tin Tin, Lassie and Roy Rogers' Bullet. Dogs were hot all through the fifties.  Err...no pun intended.

For the first time in ages, we get a couple fillers by someone or ones other than the nigh-ubiquitous Henry Boltinoff...although he's in the issue, also.

Here she is. What fans have been clamoring for. Aquagirl! Take a quick look as she's gone after this story.

Adventure Comics # 265, October, 1959

My, this year's going by so quickly! This issue's cover feature is yet another variation on the past meets the future. Not much going on in the backup strips besides some solid light entertainment. Aqualad is still on his way but not until, as per this issue's letters column, we meet the one shot Aquagirl next issue.  Note also, in the fine print of the ads for other Superman Family comics, the name Congorilla. Congorilla will soon invade these pages.