Century Comic #80

Colour Comics' Century Comic #80 was published c.January 1963

The cover is modified from the original on DC's Adventure Comics #291:

The story contents are as follows:

Superboy's Romance with Cleopatra!,  originally published in Adventure Comics #291, December 1961

African Man Hunt!, originally published in The Adventures of Rex the Wonder Dog #13, January-February 1954

The King of the Thieves!, originally published in Tomahawk #30, February 1955

Aquaman's Super Sea Circus, originally published in World's Finest Comics #126, June 1962

The Madam Jekyll of Metropolis!, originally published in Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane #36, October 1962

The Deadly Faces of Dawn, originally published in House of Mystery #128, November 1962

Buzzard of the Badlands!, originally published in All-American Western #123, December 1951-January 1952

Frame-Up at Planeteer Academy Chapter 1, originally published in Showcase #41, November-December 1962

The Criminal Who Couldn't Die Chapter 2, originally published in Showcase #41, November-December 1962

The Cosmic Game of Doom, originally published in House of Mystery #127, October 1962

Plus a single-page Lem 'n' Lime filler which begins "Look at you, Lem! You have on one brown shoe...", originally published in Blackhawk 116, September 1957

Some of these stories may be related to later DC reprintings - for example, the Lem 'n' Lime filler is most likely related to the reprint in Superboy #102, January 1963 - but I have only listed the original printings of the stories as per GCD listings.

As you can see this issue ranges widely across the DC genre line-up, from Superman Family and superhero stories to westerns, mystery comics and sci-fi adventures.

There are two advertisements in this issue with a January 1963 date code.

I purchased this copy in 2005 from a Sydney dealer in a batch of half a dozen Century comics and each of them are what I deem mylar-worthy, such is their condition. The only thing that mars this copy is the off-centre cropping, visible in the scan above. These copies were not cheap at the time, but I now wish I had purchased all the KG Murray comics this guy had because of their condition. A friend of mine also purchased books from this dealer and any time he showed me a pristine pre-decimal Murray, I didn't have to ask - I knew immediately where he got it from and how much he paid for it.