| Issue | #495 |
| Published | January 1983 |
| Cover Price | 1.25 USD |
| Pages | 100 |
| Editing | Carl Gafford |
| Characters | Red Ryan; Superboy; Saturn Girl; Lightning Lad; Cosmic Boy |
| Pencils | Ross Andru (signed) |
| Inks | Dick Giordano (signed) |
| Characters | Challengers of the Unknown [Ace Morgan; Rocky Davis; Prof Haley; Red Ryan] |
| Synopsis | Continued from last issue... The not-yet-Challengers hang in Rocky's apartment, reading and paying bills. Only Prof frets about the jet sabotage. Ace wonders if he's the target. When he dumped a cargo of nitro, he exposed gold for prospectors but buried an Eskimo burial ground. "Angry Eskimos booby-trapped our plane? C'mon!" Red recounts how he was installing a radio tower in South America and almost killed by a dictator. Prof recounts how he helped rescue a sunken statue. Prof had inherited a fortune that cut his cousin Freddie out of the will. Prof needs to talk to Freddie. But first, Red has something to confess... Continued. |
| Genre | adventure |
| Script | Bob Rozakis |
| Pencils | Alex Toth |
| Inks | Frank Giacoia |
| Colors | Carl Gafford |
| Letters | Milt Snapinn |
| Editing | Carl Gafford |
| Notes | An original adventure based on their origin in Showcase 6 and Challengers of the Unknown 31. Learn more about the Challs at www.challengersoftheunknown.com. |
| Characters | Superboy [also appears as Clark Kent]; Sun Boy (impostor); Tom Tanner; Legion of Super-Heroes [Cosmic Boy; Lightning Lad; Saturn Girl; Phantom Girl; Brainiac 5; Chameleon Boy; Sun Boy]; Lana Lang; Martha Kent; Chief Parker |
| Synopsis | Superboy meets new Legion member Sun Boy (who is later revealed to be an impostor). Meanwhile, reform school escapee Tom Tanner (a double for Clark Kent) tries to take over Clark's life in Smallville. |
| Genre | superhero |
| Script | Robert Bernstein |
| Pencils | George Papp |
| Inks | George Papp |
| Colors | Carl Gafford (reprint colorist) |
| Letters | Joe Letterese |
| Editing | Mort Weisinger (original story) |
| Notes | first appearance of Sun Boy; original story is partially rewritten from "The Two Clark Kents" in Adventure Comics #191 (August 1953) |
| Reprinted | from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #290 (November 1961) |
| Characters | Aquaman; Aqualad; Mera (cameo flashback); Aquababy (cameo flashback) |
| Synopsis | Aquaman finds himself in conflict with a gang of unnamed criminals. |
| Genre | superhero |
| Script | Steve Skeates |
| Pencils | Jim Aparo |
| Inks | Jim Aparo |
| Colors | Bob LeRose (reprint colorist) |
| Letters | Jim Aparo |
| Editing | Dick Giordano (original story) |
| Reprinted | from Aquaman (DC, 1962 series) #44 (March-April 1969) |
| Characters | Captain Marvel; Dr. Sivana |
| Synopsis | Sivana tricks Captain Marvel into believing that he killed all the inhabitants of a planet. |
| Genre | superhero |
| Script | Otto Binder |
| Pencils | C. C. Beck |
| Inks | C. C. Beck |
| Colors | Owen Blessitt (reprint colorist) |
| Reprinted | from Captain Marvel Adventures (Fawcett, 1941 series) #141 (February 1953) |
| Characters | Superboy (also appears as Clark Kent); Legion of Super-Heroes [Lightning Lad, Cosmic Boy, Saturn Girl]; Legion of Super-Pets [Krypto, Streaky, Super-Monkey, Super-Horse]; Brain Globes of Rambat; Lana Lang; Martha Kent; Jonathan Kent; Jax-Ur; General Zod; Mon-El |
| Synopsis | Superboy is attacked by his friends in the Legion, under the evil influence of the Brain-Globes of Rambat. After the Legionnaires regain their senses, they gather four super-pets to defeat the Brain-Globes. |
| Genre | superhero |
| Script | Jerry Siegel |
| Pencils | Curt Swan |
| Inks | George Klein |
| Colors | Carl Gafford (reprint colorist) |
| Letters | Milt Snapinn |
| Editing | Mort Weisinger (original story) |
| Notes | First appearance of Legion of Super-Pets; first appearance of Comet the Super-Horse. |
| Reprinted | from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #293 (February 1962) |
| Characters | Sandman; Sandy; Stretcho; Midge; Presto; Samson |
| Synopsis | Sandman and Sandy battle the villains of the Mammoth Carnival. |
| Genre | superhero |
| Script | Jack Kirby |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Joe Simon |
| Colors | Nansi Hoolahan (reprint colorist) |
| Letters | Howard Ferguson |
| Editing | Whitney Ellsworth (original story) |
| Reprinted | from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #84 (March 1943) |
| Characters | Spectre; Jim Corrigan; Dirk Rawley; Mona Marcy; Commissioner Hackett |
| Synopsis | The evil etheric body of magician Dirk Rawley emerges and forces him into crime. |
| Genre | superhero; occult |
| Script | Gardner Fox |
| Pencils | Neal Adams |
| Inks | Neal Adams |
| Colors | Jerry Serpe (reprint colorist) |
| Editing | Julius Schwartz (original story) |
| Reprinted | from Spectre, The (DC, 1967 series) #2 (January-February 1968) |
| Script | Paul Levitz |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Background information on the two Superboy/Legion reprints in this issue. |
| Characters | Sandman; Sandy; Superboy; Sun Boy (impostor); Captain Marvel; Spectre; Aquaman |
| Genre | superhero |
| Pencils | Keith Giffen (signed) |
| Inks | Romeo Tanghal (signed) |
| Notes | Back cover |