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SUPERBOY #172
Cover Date: March 1971
Cover Price: $.15
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Cover Credits:
Art: Neal Adams
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Credits:
| Story | Frank Robbins |
| Pencils | Bob Brown |
| Inks | Murphy Anderson |
| Lettering | John Costanza |
| Editing | Murray Boltinoff |
Feature Character(s):
Supporting Character(s):
Villain(s):
- poachers (first appearance of all; Hawkins named)
Other Character(s):
- Yango (first appearance; a Kryptonian ape, subjected to years of "intensive-conditional-cybernetic brain-programming" to become intelligent; also in flashback)
- Professor An-Kal (first appearance; a Kryptonian anthropologist; in flashback)
Cameo Appearance(s):
- Martha Kent (in flashback)
- Jonathan Kent (in flashback)
Location(s):
- Space Sector 2813
- Krypton (in flashback)
- Space Sector 2814
- Earth
- Smallville
- Kenya (also in flashback)
- Earth
Credits:
| Story | E. Nelson Bridwell |
| Art | George Tuska |
| Lettering | Joe Letterese |
| Editing | Murray Boltinoff |
Feature Character(s):
- Legion of Super-Heroes
- Light Lass (last in Action Comics #392/2; next in issue #200; also in flashback)
- Lightning Lad (last in Action Comics #386/2; next in issue #188/2; also in flashback)
- Timber Wolf (last in Action Comics #391/2; next in issue #191/2)
Villain(s):
- Lightning Lord (last in Adventure Comics #372; next in issue #207/2; also in flashback)
Other Character(s):
Cameo Appearance(s):
- Cosmic Boy (in flashback)
- Saturn Girl (in flashback)
- R.J. Brande (in flashback)
Location(s):
- Space Sector 1771
- Korbal (in flashback)
- Space Sector 2814
- Unidentified Space Sector
- Interplanetary Bank (Main branch)
Story Reprinted in:
- DC Special Series #19 (Fall 1979)
- Best of DC #33 (February 1983)
- Legion of Super-Heroes Archives #10 (2000)
- Showcase Presents: Legion of Super-Heroes #4 ([September] 2010)