Adventure Comics #151
Adventure Comics #151
Cover Credits
Artist: Al Plastino

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Title: "The Boy Who Talked Too Much"
Pages: 12

Feature(s):
Superboy (of Earth-1)

Writer: Bill Finger
Artist: John Sikela

Feature Character(s)

Villain(s)

  • Chips Chandler and his partner (gamblers; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

  • Danny Peale (aka Gabby; a ham radio enthusiast; no further appearances)
  • Freddy Finger and Steves (a baseball player and his coach; no further appearances)
  • Tom Benton, Jack Davis, Emily Chase, Mary, and Stretch Talbot (students; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Danny Peale is nicknamed Gabby by his classmates because he spreads gossip. Most students refuse to be his friend, so Gabby builds a ham radio and begins broadcasting the gossip. His actions cause problems for many students, then gamblers try to use him to get the best basketball player kicked off the team.

Superboy helps several kids overcome the problems created by Gabby. He also gets a confession from the gamblers that they gave the gossip monger false information. Superboy then tries to convince Gabby to stop spreading gossip by publicly revealing embarassing information about him.

Gabby visits Clark Kent to get advice. However, he begins to suspect that Clark is Superboy. He prepares to broadcast the information, but heeds Clark's advice to give up gossip. Superboy then tricks Gabby into believing that he and Clark are not the same person.


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