Adventure Comics # 470, April, 1970

Another entertaining if not spectacular issue. 

Perhaps THE quintessential comic book ad of the day.

Digests were relatively new from DC. Archie Comics had been making a go of them and Gold Key did fairly well with them a decade earlier. DC had even tried and failed themselves some time before. But now...foreshadowing as far as ADVENTURE is concerned.

Adventure Comics # 469, March, 1980

A typically entertaining issue from this run with lots of ads including not one but two pushing ADVENTURE itself!

Was Plas getting on TV because he was back in the comics or was he back in the comics because he was getting on TV?

Not really the 200th issue of SUPERMAN FAMILY, a mag just recently formed with numbering continued from, I believe, JIMMY OLSEN.

  A really cool personalized subscription ad featuring editor Len Wein.

The book below featured Frank Miller's first work on a Batman story. Who knew?

Live long and prosper.

Adventure Comics # 468, February, 1980

A mildly entertaining issue at best, saved all around by the art. You folks nearly missed out on it, though, as I had lost track of both my original hard copy and the scan I had! Finally was able to secure another for our purposes here today.

Note that even DC had no idea who to answer when asked the creator of Deadman.

Adventure Comics # 467, January, 1980

New decade, new format, new price, new frequency, new everything. Yep, we're monthly again! Back when ADVENTURE was young, Plastic Man was a Quality comics character but now here he is, having been purchased along with Blackhawk back in the late fifties. Although the original Jack Cole strips are among the best comics ever done, this particular revival by Wein, Staton and Smith is fondly remembered by fans as well! Staton having cut his teeth on E-MAN, a strip with vaguely similar sensibilities, certainly didn't hurt matters.

An appropriate ad--although a rather stupid concept.

Another appropriate ad.

Steve Ditko! Although one of comics' all-time greats, I can't recall his ever having appeared in ADVENTURE before. Here this eclectic creator goes pretty mainstream with a revival of the STARMAN name even if the character has no relation (at least until much later continuity implants) to the classic DC hero who once held court here in ADVENTURE.

And what has our old friend Superboy been up to lately?

And Green Lantern who was so quickly and unceremoniously dumped from the Dollar ADVENTURE?