Cover Credits |
Artist: J. Winslow Mortimer |
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Comic Title: Adventure Comics #165
Publisher: DC
(National Comics Publications, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: June 1951
Approx. On Sale Date:
April 20, 1951 Copyright Date April 18, 1951
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1951
Until 1958 DC did not report actual on sale dates to the copyright office
The publication dates listed in LoC records are NOT release dates.
Frequency: Monthly
Cover Price: $0.10
Page Count: 48
Editor: Jack Schiff
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Title: "Superboy's School for Stuntmen"
Pages: 12
Feature(s):
Superboy (of Earth-1)
Writer: William Woolfolk
Artist: John Sikela
Feature Character(s)
- Superboy (last appearance in Adventure Comics #164; next appearance in Superboy #15)
Villain(s)
- Tumbles Tilton (a thief; no further appearances)
Other Character(s)
- Flip Wilson (a stuntman; no further appearances)
- Fred Edwards (a student at Wilson's stunt school; no further appearances)
- Several stunt school students (James Atkinson, Marie Brooks, and Gloria Dennon named; no further appearances)
- The mayor of Smallville (no further appearances)
Synopsis:
Flip Wilson, a stuntman who runs a school to train others in his profession, performs at a charity event in Smallville. After his performance he asks Superboy to help save the reputation of his school. A series of petty crimes perpetrated by a masked stuntman have involved stunts taught at the school. Flip wants Superboy to become a guest instructor in order to catch the crook.
Superboy agrees to teach at the school. Enrollment immediately increases. Soon Superboy encounters the masked stuntman, but the crook get away after stealing a feather from a woman's hat. In his second encounter with Superboy, the bandit robs a jewelry store. The Boy of Steel is suspicious that this crime was more serious than the previous ones, so he checks the stunt school records provide evidence to the identity of the thief.
Superboy watches from the sky above, when the masked stuntman strikes again. However, this time another masked stuntman appears to stop a payroll robbery. Superboy apprehends both men and unmasks them. The first stuntman is Flip Wilson who was the original bandit. He committed the petty crimes to get Superboy involved to increase his enrollment at the failing stunt school. The second masked bandit is revealed as Tumbles Tilton, a stuntman who entered the school in order to use his talents dishonestly. Wilson tried to make amends for his actions by stopping Tilton. Superboy agrees to let Wilson go, then he finishes teaching the course at the stunt school.
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