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Superboy 105

SUPERBOY #105

Cover Date: June 1963
Cover Price: $.12
Publication Date: 1963-04-04

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Cover Credits:
Pencils: Curt Swan
Inks: George Klein


Story: "The Simpleton of Steel!" (8 Pages)

Credits:

StoryJerry Siegel
PencilsCurt Swan
InksGeorge Klein
EditingMort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Superboy (exposed to red kryptonite, pretends to have become "super stupid" in a plot to capture a narcotics gang, the Red K actually gave him an extra finger on each hand; last in Adventure Comics #308/2; next in the third story in this issue)

Supporting Character(s):

Lana Lang (last in Adventure Comics #308; next in issue #106)
Chief Parker (last in Adventure Comics #308; next in issue #107/2)

Other Character(s):

a bank president
FBI agents
citizens of Smallville

Location(s):

Smallville


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Second Story: "The Day Baby Lana Became "Super"!" (9 Pages)
An Untold Story of Superbaby

Credits:

StoryJerry Siegel
ArtGeorge Papp
EditingMort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Superbaby last in issue #102; next in Adventure Comics #311/2)

Supporting Character(s):

Jonathan Kent (last in issue #102; next in Adventure Comics #311/2)
Martha Kent (last/next in ???)
Lana Lang (last in issue #102; next in New Adventures of Superboy #11/2)
Lewis Lang (mistakenly believes Lana has super powers; last/next in ???)

Other Character(s):

Charlie Beasley (first appearance; "the Human Cannonball" at a circus and friend of Jonathan Kent and Lewis Lang)
soldiers at the Fort Smallville Artillery Range (General Waldo Talbot named)

Location(s):

Smallville


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Third Story: "The Superdog That Was Greater Than Krypto!" (8 Pages)

Credits:

StoryJerry Siegel
ArtAl Plastino
EditingMort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Superboy (last in the first story in this issue; next in Adventure Comics #309/2)

Supporting Character(s):

Krypto (last in Adventure Comics #306; next in issue #106)
Jonathan Kent (in between Adventure Comics #308 and #309/2)
Martha Kent (last in Adventure Comics #308; next in issue #106)
Pete Ross (last in Adventure Comics #308; next in issue #106)

Villain(s):

Swifty's original owner (first appearance; an angry fox hunter, tries to shoot Swifty)
whale poachers (first appearance for all)

Other Character(s):

Swifty (first appearance; a greyhound that befriends Superboy and is given a serum to grant temporary super powers; next in issue #109/2)
inhabitants of an unidentified planet (first appearance for all; a race of canine humanoids and their pets which resemble human children)

Location(s):

Space Sector 2814
Doghouse of Solitude
Earth
Smallville
Virginia
somewhere out at sea
Unidentified Space Sector(s)
an unidentified asteroid
an unidentified planet

Story Reprinted in:

Superboy Vol. 1 #174 (May-June 1971)


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