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Adventure Comics 384

ADVENTURE COMICS #384

Cover Date: September 1969
Cover Price: $.15
Publication Date: 1969-07-29

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Cover Credits:
Pencils: Curt Swan
Inks: Murphy Anderson


Story: "The Heroine Haters!" (13 Pages)

Credits:

StoryCary Bates
PencilsWin Mortimer
InksJack Abel
LetteringJoe Letterese
Assistant editingE. Nelson Bridwell
EditingMort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Supergirl (last in issue #383; next in the second story in this issue)

Guest Star(s):

Superman (last in Justice League of America #122; next in World's Finest Comics #186)

Other Character(s):

Volar (Ren Uoxon; first appearance; champion of Torma; due to her panet's prejudices, originally disguised as a teenage boy; later acts publicly as a teenage girl)
Danon (first appearance; father of Volar)
Mara (first appearance; mother of Volar)
citizens of Torma (first appearance of all; also in flashback)
"the Visitor" (first appearance; in flashback; an alien that had visited Torma, preaching about the inferiority of females)
Becky (first appearance; Linda's roommate)
Jan (first appearance; Linda's roommate)
their dates

Location(s):

Space Sector 2814
Earth
Fortress of Solitude
Stanhope College
Unidentified Space Sector
Torma (first appearance)


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Second Story: "Supergirl's Greatest Failure!" (13 Pages)

Credits:

StoryRobert Kanigher
ArtKurt Schaffenberger
LetteringJoe Letterese
Assistant editingE. Nelson Bridwell
EditingMort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Supergirl (last in the first story in this issue; exposed to red kryptonite, develops a split-personality driven by guilt that seeks to expose her secret identity as Linda Danvers; next in issue #385)

Supporting Character(s):

Jimmy Olsen (in between Superman Vol. 1 #219/2 and #220)
Lois Lane (last in Action Comics #379; next in Superman Vol. 1 #220)

Other Character(s):

Stanhope College students
campers at Camp Nokomis (first appearance for all; Alice, Arlene, Gerda, Jenny, Paula and Phyllis named)
counselors at Camp Nokomis (first appearance for all)

Location(s):

Camp Nokomis (first appearance)
Fortress of Solitude
Metropolis
Daily Planet
Stanhope College


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