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SUPERBOY #140
Cover Date: July 1967
Cover Price: $.12
Publication Date: 1967-05-18
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Cover Credits:
Pencils: Curt Swan
Inks: George Klein
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Credits:
| Story | E. Nelson Bridwell |
| Pencils | Al Plastino |
| Inks | George Klein |
| Editing | Mort Weisinger |
Feature Character(s):
- Superboy (last in Adventure Comics #357; next in the second in this issue)
Supporting Character(s):
- Jonathan Kent (last in issue #139/2; next in the second in this issue)
- Martha Kent (last in issue #139/2; next in the second in this issue)
Villain(s):
- The Gambler ("Lucky" Lucifer Chancel; first appearance; also in flashbacks; see Comments)
- his gang (first appearance for all; Blackie, Gale, Maxie, and the Prof named)
- various unidentified gamblers (heads of crime syndicates)
Other Character(s):
- citizens of Smallville
Cameo Appearance(s):
- various boys roughly the same size of Superboy; names only listed on a wheel of chance (Pete Ross, Hector Hooper, Ted O’Hara, Hank Stevens, Tommy Wilde, Paul Davis, Pug Waters, Gary Brown, Ed Marks, Dave Lewis, Stan Allen, Dick Quinn, Al Drake, Ben Carle, Fred Plast, Ron Vayle, Tommy Hunter, Pete Perkins and Steve Snapinn; all first mentioned except for Pete Ross)
Location(s):
Comment(s):
- There is no connection between "The Gambler" ("Lucky" Lucifer Chancel) and the more famous Gambler (Steven Sharpe).
Credits:
| Story | Otto Binder |
| Pencils | George Papp |
| Inks | Chic Stone |
| Editing | Mort Weisinger |
Feature Character(s):
- Superboy (last in the first story in this issue; next in Adventure Comics #358; also in flashback to Krypton, last/next in ???)
Supporting Character(s):
- Krypto (infected with "Kryptonian Rabies;" in between issues #137/2 and #148/2)
- Jonathan Kent (last in issue #139/2; next in issue #142)
- Martha Kent (last in issue #139/2; next in issue #144)
- Jor-El (in flashback; last in flashback in World of Krypton #3 [page 8, panel 11 to page 11, panel 5]; next in flashback in issue #104 [page 13, panels 1-4])
- Lara Jor-El (in flashback; last/next in ???)
Other Character(s):
- U.S. Army officials
- sailors
- Kryptonians (in flashback; circus performers)
Location(s):
- Space Sector 2813
- Krypton (in flashback)
- Space Sector 2814
- Earth
- Smallville
- various locations around Earth
- Earth
Comment(s):
- Superboy and Krypto come across a space capsule carrying deadly disease germs launched from Krypton.