Adventure Comics # 202, July, 1954

The Boy of Steel himself gets this issue's inside cover PSA, drawn by cover artist Win Mortimer.

Here's something we haven't seen so blatantly lately--proof that the Superboy stories are set in the (then) present day! This, of course, since every single SUPERBOY story says "The Adventures of Superman When He Was a Boy" would seem to indicate that SuperMAN's stories take place at least a decade in the future, let's say 1965. This mess just got worse as time went on.

Abbott and Costello were still making movies in 1954---for a little while longer--but most likely they appeared in this popsicle ad because of their TV popularity.

Speaking of TV, the GREEN ARROW strip takes a look at television's popularity by way of a criminals network. 

A sign of the times. Long a giant book at the elevated price of fifteen cents when everything else was a dime, WORLD'S FINEST had been cutting corners 'til they couldn't slice any more pages...so they took their two most popular features and teamed them up--BATMAN AND SUPERMAN.

Adventure Comics # 201, June, 1954

A fairly standard issue. Not much to see here. Move along.

Adventure Comics # 200, May, 1954

Apes again. This issue's AQUAMAN story is the highlight though with AQUAMAN, MICROBE HUNTER presaging FANTASTIC VOYAGE by a dozen years with essentially the same plot. Ramona Fradon continues on the art.

Adventure Comics # 199, April, 1954

 
While DC continued to publish innocuous but entertaining material, this same month saw their sort of spin-off company, EC, publish the CRIME SUSPENSTORIES cover with Johnny Craig's infamous axe murderer which would be discussed soon enough in the Congressional Hearings that were just around the corner.

Adventure Comics # 198, March, 1954

These guys on the cover and in the SUPERBOY story this issue remind one of later Legion of Super-Heroes rejects. Both cover and story are drawn by future LSH artist Curt Swan (with inks by future PHANTOM artist Sy Barry).