Cover: Gil Kane

Adventure Comics #498

Apr 1983 · DC · 1.25 USD; 1.50 CAD

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“The Secret Origin of Bouncing Boy!”

Adventure Comics #498 (April 1983) delivers two Legion of Super-Heroes tales for the price of one, as the cover boldly promises. Gil Kane's split cover layout sets the stakes immediately — on the left, a powerless Sun Boy faces down a battery of menacing robotic weaponry, while on the right, a spherical Bouncing Boy tumbles through the air above a scrappy brawl involving several costumed figures and a green-clad villain. It's a lively, well-composed cover from Kane that gives Legion fans plenty to look forward to inside.

writer, artist Jack Kirby · inker Joe Simon · colorist Nansi Hoolahan · letterer Howard Ferguson · cover Gil Kane

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Full credits

writer, artist Jack Kirby

inker Joe Simon

colorist Nansi Hoolahan

letterer Howard Ferguson

cover pencils, inks Gil Kane

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Sandman and Sandy face the threat of a scientist who has invented a machine whose revitalizing vibrations allow a man to develop his unused brain cells, tripling his thinking power!

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