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Superboy 102

SUPERBOY #102

Cover Date: January 1963
Cover Price: $.12
Publication Date: 1962-11-22

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Cover Credits:
Pencils: Curt Swan
Inks: George Klein


Story: "The Amazing Tots of Smallville!" (12 Pages)

Credits:

StoryJerry Siegel
ArtAl Plastino
EditingMort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Clark Kent (as a baby; last in flashback in Superman Vol. 1 #137; next in issue #105/2)

Supporting Character(s):

Lana Lang (as a baby; earliest chronological appearance; next in issue #105/2)
Jonathan Kent (in between issues #97 and #105/2)
Lewis Lang (earliest chronological appearance?; next in ???)
Lex Luthor (as a baby; earliest chronological appearance; next in Adventure Comics #271 [Up to Page 4, Panel 4])
Martha Kent (last/next in ???)
Pete Ross (as a baby; earliest chronological appearance; next in issue #86/2)

Villain(s):

Al Capone's gang (running a bootleg whisky operation out of Smallville)
Scarface Louie
Duke
two unnamed others
Hiram (first appearance; a local farmer on the gang's payroll)
Zeke (first appearance; a local farmer on the gang's payroll)

Other Character(s):

Smallville police officers
an FBI agent

Location(s):

Smallville

Comment(s):

This story is "An Untold Tale of Superboy When He Was a Superbaby," and takes place on July 4th and 5th, in the early 1930s during Prohibition.

Story Reprinted in:

Superboy Vol. 1 #182/3 (February 1972)


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Second Story: "The Secret of Krypton's Scarlet Jungle" (12 Pages)

Credits:

StoryJerry Siegel
ArtGeorge Papp
EditingMort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Superboy (in between Adventure Comics #303/2 and #304; also in flashbacks as baby Kal-El on Krypton, last/next in ???)

Supporting Character(s):

Chief Parker (last/next in ???)
Jonathan Kent (in between Adventure Comics #301 and #304)
Martha Kent (last in issue #100/2; next in Adventure Comics #304)

Villain(s):

Though-Beasts (first appearance; one in the present and flashbacks; another in flashback only)
Phantom Zone Prisoners
Jax-Ur (last in Adventure Comics #293; next in issue #104)
two other unidentified prisoners

Other Character(s):

two unidentified aliens (in flashback; collecting pecimens for an interstellar zoo, not realizing the Kryptonian Thought-Beast would gain super powers under a yellow sun)

Location(s):

Space Sector 2813
Krypton
Kryptonopolis (in flashback)
Scarlet Jungle (in flashback)
Space Sector 2814
Earth
Smallville
Unidentified Space Sector
an unidentified asteroid (first appearance; foliage changed by Superboy to resemble the Scarlet Jungle)
Phantom Zone

Story Reprinted in:

Four Star Spectacular #2 (May-June 1976)


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