Unofficial Adventure Comics Index

ADVENTURE COMICS #286

Cover Date: July 1961
Cover Price: $.10
Publication Date: 1961-05-31

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Cover Credits:
Pencils: Curt Swan
Inks: Stan Kaye

Story: "The Witch of Smallville!" (13 Pages)

Credits:

Story	Robert Bernstein
Art	Al Plastino
Editing	Mort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Superboy (in between Superboy Vol. 1 #90/3 and #91)

Supporting Character(s):

Lana Lang (in between Superboy Vol. 1 #90/3 and #91)

Jonathan Kent (in between Superboy Vol. 1 #89/2 and #91)

Martha Kent (poses as the witch "Old Meg;" in between Superboy Vol. 1 #90/3 and #91)

Villain(s):

Sam Scott (first appearance; a reporter for the Daily Planet, secretly a foreign spy)

the "Exalted Leader" (first appearance; ruler of a hostile nation)

Other Character(s):

Miss Tracy (first appearance; a high school English teacher)

Smallville High students

reporters

caretaker of the Old Meg Museum (first appearance)

Old Meg (first mentioned; a witch allegedly residing in Smallville centuries ago)

Location(s):

United States of America

Smallville

an unidentified foreign nation

Comment(s):

According to Sam Scott, Perry White has been recently made the editor of the Daily Planet.

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Second Story: "Bizarro, Private Detective!" (13 Pages)

Credits:

Story	Jerry Siegel
Art	John Forte
Editing	Mort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Bizarro (in between issues #285/2 and #287/2)

Supporting Character(s):

Bizarro-Lois (in between issues #285/2 and #287/2)

Bizarro-Junior No. 1 (in between issues #285/2 and #288/2)

Villain(s):

Bizarro-Kltpzyxm (first appearance; created by Bizarro-Junior No. 1; next in issue #287/2)

Other Character(s):

Bizarros (Bizarros, Bizarro-Loises and Bizrro,Jrs.)

Location(s):

Space Sector 1482

Bizarro World

Bizarro CIty

Daily Htrae

Palace of Junk

Fourtriss uv Bizarro

Story Reprinted in:

Superman Vol. 1 #193/5 (January-February 1967) [retitled and abbreviated]

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

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