Adventure Comics #225 Values

Publisher: DC, 1956

About Adventure Comics #225

Superboy encounters the "The Bird with Super-Powers!" Aquaman and Green Arrow backup features. Curt Swan cover and art.

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COVER DETAILS

Title: The Bird with Super-Powers!

Pencils: Curt Swan

Inks: Stan Kaye

STORY DETAILS

(8 Stories)

Title: The Bird with Super Powers

Characters: Superboy; Lana Lang; Professor Lang; Martha Kent; Jonathan Kent

Synopsis: Professor Lang brings back a mynah bird that seems to have super-powers and human intelligence. It's stolen by a crook who paints it in Superboy colors to steal, so Superboy is blamed. Turns out the bird drank from the same African pool as "Chandu, the Gorilla with X-Ray Eyes" (seen in Adventure Comics 219). Superboy over-exposes the bird to the fallen meteorite and it reverts to a normal bird.

Pages: 12.000

Script: Alvin Schwartz

Pencils: Curt Swan

Inks: George Klein

Reprints: Superboy (DC, 1949 series) #174 (May-June 1971)

Notes: Inker credit by Bob Hughes; we previously credited John Fischetti. Also given as Klein in the reprint in Superboy #174. In that reprint, the story title is slightly modified to include a hyphen, i.e., as "The Bird with Super-Powers."

Title: The Useless Arrows

Synopsis: Green Arrow's arrows are stolen so he has to use a bunch of arrows sent to the Arrow Candy Company as part of a kids' contest.

Pages: 6.000

Script: Jack Miller ?

Pencils: George Papp

Inks: George Papp

Notes: writer credit by Bob Hughes

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CGC Census Report*

Grade	NG	PG	CVR	0.5	1.0	1.5	1.8	2.0	2.5	3.0	3.5	4.0	4.5	5.0	5.5	6.0	6.5	7.0	7.5	8.0	8.5	9.0	9.2	9.4	9.6	9.8	9.9	10.0	Total
Universal	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	2	1	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	9
Qualified	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Signature Series	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
CGCxJSA	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Restored	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Total	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	2	2	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	10

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