Adventure Comics # 274, July, 1960

This is quite a good Superboy story  and the alien in it looks enough like a gorilla that sales were probably good. 

GL gets his own mag and was, as we saw from an earlier ad, already appearing in JLA stories, too.

Aqua-QUEEN? Not yet. Not really. Mera was still a ways away.

A letter here praises "last issue's" Superboy meets Supergirl story and suggests that the editors do a teenage Bruce Wayne meets young  Clark Kent story. We are assured that such a story is coming up in the next issue...which it is. Unfortunately, the Superboy meets Supergirl hasn't run at all yet and is still a few issues after this! Another letter completely made up to plug the following month's story?

Adventure Comics # 273, June, 1960

The highlight of this issue is actually the ad showing the second appearance of the JLA being hyped at an equal level as the comparatively trivial Rip Hunter, Time Master.

Adventure Comics # 272, May, 1960

Here's Krypto being highlighted again. In retrospect, I can't help but wonder why he never got his own book.

Note that once again Bizarro is in the Superman tale in that month's ACTION COMICS. The mail must have been really good as there had only recently been a new bizarro tale.

One LOC-writer suggests that a TV Superboy could be played by "Johnny McCain" who played "the deputy" on THE RIFLEMAN. Either the letter writer or the editor had never seen the series as they were referring to Johnny CRAWFORD, who played the SON on the series.  Not a bad suggestion, however. Much better than the suggestion the editor notes of the very ethnic-looking and accented Sal Mineo!

This issue's AQUAMAN tale, still being drawn nicely by Ramona Fradon, introduces the Human Flying Fish, a dorky character who, in the Internet age, has come to be a cult favorite among stupid DC villains!

Adventure Comics # 271, April, 1960

This issue, we present a seminal story in the Silver Age Superman Family mythos--the story of how Lex Luthor met Superboy, lost his hair and went rogue. Unlike many of the Superboy tales, this one would be referred back to endlessly.

Adventure Comics # 270, March, 1960

A pretty good Superboy tale and another Aquaman tale highlighting Aqualad but the big news here is--NO Green Arrow and Speedy! After 20 years, they suddenly had no regular home. They would appear  from time to time in WORLD's FINEST and GA would end up in the JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA (as well as becoming a popular guest star in THE BRAVE & THE BOLD).

Replacing the Emerald Archer here is CONGORILLA for the next year or so. Congorilla was originally just plain CONGO BILL, a JUNGLE JIM wannabe who lasted a surprisingly long time in ACTION and WORLD'S FINEST and even had his own title a few years before this. The previous year, though, over in ACTION, Bill was given the ability to transfer his mind into the body of a powerful golden gorilla. This was most likely due to DC's long-runing gorilla fetish in the fifties.