Adventure Comics #317 Pacific Coast Pedigree (DC, 1964) CGC NM 9.4 Off-white to white pages....

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Adventure Comics #317 Values

Publisher: DC, 1964

About Adventure Comics #317

First appearance of Dream Girl and the Iron Curtain of Time. First mention of the Time Trapper. Lightning Lass becomes Light Lass. Superboy cover by Curt Swan.

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COVER DETAILS

Title: The Menace of Dream Girl!

Characters: Legion of Super-Heroes [Superboy; Lightning Lad; Bouncing Boy; Shrinking Violet; Ultra Boy]; Dream Girl

Pencils: Curt Swan

Inks: George Klein

Letters: Ira Schnapp

STORY DETAILS

(6 Stories)

Title: Part I The Menace of Dream Girl!

Characters: Legion of Super-Heroes [Saturn Girl; Lightning Lass; Brainiac 5; Star Boy; Matter-Eater Lad; Superboy; Mon-El; Sun Boy; Triplicate Girl; Bouncing Boy]; Dream Girl (introduction); Rann Antar (rejected applicant)

Synopsis: Dream Girl joins the Legion and insists Lightning Lass be expelled when she loses her powers and demands Triplicate Girl be court-martialled for accusing her of causing Lightning Lass to lose her power.

Pages: 9.000

Script: Edmond Hamilton

Pencils: John Forte (signed)

Inks: John Forte (signed)

Letters: Milton Snapinn

Reprints: Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #502 (August 1983)

Notes: First mention of the Time Trapper and the first appearance the Iron Curtain of Time. At the beginning of the meeting, there is a reading of the Legion Constitution, which includes "Clause 6, sub-clause 3 [which] requires that every Legionnaire use language-learning machines to learn any new planetary language." And later Dream Girl quotes clause 2-B, which reads "No one without a super-power can be a member." And she later quotes sub-clause 11, which reads "Making false charges against any fellow-legionnaire shall be cause for expulsion from the Legion." And later yet she quotes clause 2, sub-clause 4 which forbids subverting a legionnaire doing his or her duty.

Characters: Super-Turtle

Synopsis: Super-Turtle confronts bank robbers who laugh at a turtle dressed like Superman. They shoot at him, but keep missing. Super-Turtle is discouraged that crooks will never realize he is invincible unless they can hit him, so the next time he encounters bank robbers, he puts a bullseye on his belly.

Pages: 0.670

Script: Henry Boltinoff

Pencils: Henry Boltinoff (signed)

Inks: Henry Boltinoff (signed)

Letters: Henry Boltinoff

Title: Part II The Doom of the Legion!

Characters: Legion of Super-Heroes [Saturn Girl; Brainiac 5; Star Boy; Matter-Eater Lad; Triplicate Girl; Sun Boy; Lightning Lad; Ultra Boy; Bouncing Boy; Shrinking Violet; Superboy; Chameleon Boy; Light Lass]; Dream Girl

Synopsis: Even more Legionnaires are expelled before Dream Girl reveals to Star Boy that it was all a plot to prevent their deaths. Star Boy explains what she really foresaw and Dream Girl leaves the team to perfect her power.

Pages: 9.000

Script: Edmond Hamilton

Pencils: John Forte

Inks: John Forte

Letters: Milton Snapinn

Reprints: Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #502 (August 1983)

Notes: Lightning Lass becomes Light Lass. Again Dream Girl quotes from the Legion Constitution: clause 33-B says "If a Legionnaire becomes physically or mentally unfit to perform his duties, he must remain under observation in the Science Hospital for one year." And later she mentions that clause 81 allows punishment for making false charges against a fellow-Legionnaire.

Pages: 1.000

Letters: typeset

Notes: The column starts with an announcement of the new "Hall of Fame" department, which reprints from time to time the "greatest stories of past eras." Letters from Jerry Phillips, Merle S. Winston, Lane Tyson, Buddy Nesser, and Nora Knight. The editor also credits Edmond Hamilton for "The Super-Villains of all Ages" in issue 314, and for the story in the next issue, 318.

Title: The Shrinking of Superboy!

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

Pages: 8.000

Pencils: John Sikela

Inks: John Sikela

Notes: Caption in splash panel has been rewritten to reference the "Hall of Fame" reprints that begin in this issue. The original story title does not end with an exclamation point.

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CGC Census Report*

Grade	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	1	1	0	3	2	5	7	4	8	15	9	10	5	10	4	8	1	0	0	0	93
Qualified	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
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
Restored	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
Total	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	4	2	5	7	4	8	15	9	10	5	10	4	8	1	0	0	0	94

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