Adventure Comics #437 Values

Publisher: DC, 1975

About Adventure Comics #437

Featuring the Spectre. Cover title is Weird Adventure Comics. Aquaman backup story with Black Manta appearance. Jim Aparo cover and art.

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COVER DETAILS

Characters: The Spectre [Jim Corrigan]

Pencils: Jim Aparo [as JA] (signed)

Inks: Jim Aparo [as JA] (signed)

Colors: Tatjana Wood

Letters: Joe Letterese ?

Notes: Colors credit provided by Anthony Tollin.

STORY DETAILS

(3 Stories)

Title: The Human Bombs and... the Spectre

Characters: The Spectre [Jim Corrigan]; Gwendolyn Sterling; unnamed Police Captain; Mr. Vanderhaven (death); Sims (bank employee); Mr. Lynch (bank President); Smedley (bank employee); unnamed scientist (villain, death); Bernie (villain, death)

Synopsis: The Spectre must combat an evil scientist who has created a Hypno-Wheel, an invention that puts prominent people into a state of hypnosis, and whom he uses as human bombs to commit bank robberies.

Pages: 13.000

Script: Michael Fleisher (credited); Russell Carley (script continuity, credited)

Pencils: Ernie Chan [as Ernie Chua] (credited)

Inks: Jim Aparo (credited)

Letters: Ben Oda

Notes: The 2005 collected edition lists Jim Aparo as letterer.

Title: A Quiet Day in Atlantis

Characters: Aquaman; Black Manta; Mera

Synopsis: Aquaman is attacked by Black Manta.

Pages: 6.500

Script: Paul Levitz

Pencils: Mike Grell

Inks: Mike Grell

Letters: Milt Snapinn

Notes: Paul Levitz, in an interview with Rik Offenberger published at ComicsBulletin on August 20, 2003, talks about this story; his first solo super-hero writer assignment: "My first stories were actually in Weird Mystery and Ghost Castle; I only "graduated" to Aquaman in Adventure thanks to Bill Finger. Bill had come in on a Friday to deliver, and was supposed to have two scripts, but only had one done. The check he wanted to pick up was for both, and although Joe [Orlando] wasn't in, I wasn't going to hold back a paycheck for Batman's co-creator... even though Bill was legendary for delivering late and having excuses. But Bill never delivered that story because he died, and by the rules of the time, I was responsible for making up the pages. I asked Joe to let me do something more fun than a mystery story since I had to do it free, and he let me have the Aquaman assignment, and I got to work with Mike Grell. What fun!"

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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	0	0	1	1	1	1	0	0	2	1	4	6	3	10	11	30	7	0	0	79
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
Signature Series	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	1
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	0	0	1	1	1	1	0	0	2	1	4	7	3	10	11	30	7	0	0	80

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