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SUPERBOY #52

Cover Date: October 1956
Cover Price: $0.10
Publication Date: 1956-08-14

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Cover Credits:
Pencils: Curt Swan
Inks: Stan Kaye

Story: "The Heroine of Smallville" (8 Pages)

Credits:

Story	Otto Binder
Art	John Sikela
Editing	Mort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Superboy (last in Adventure Comics #229; next in the third story in this issue)

Supporting Character(s):

Jonathan Kent (last in Adventure Comics #229; next in issue #53/3)

Martha Kent (last in Adventure Comics #229; next in issue #53)

Lana Lang (last in Adventure Comics #229; next in issue #53)

Lewis Lang (last in Adventure Comics #229; next in issue #53/2)

Villain(s):

"Slippery" Smith (first appearance; a criminal defendent; manipulates Lana Lang into believing she has magical powers in order to trick Superboy into accidentally destroying evidence)

Other Character(s):

citizens of Smallville

Location(s):

Smallville

Story Reprinted in:

Superboy Annual #1/6 (Summer 1964)

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Second Story: "The Power-Boy from Earth" (8 Pages)

Credits:

Story	Otto Binder
Pencils	Curt Swan
Inks	Stan Kaye (?)
Editing	Mort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Superboy (in between the first and the third stories in this issue)

Villain(s):

The Creeping Jungle (first appearance)

Other Character(s):

Power-Boy (Zarl Vorne; first appearance; also appears in flashback; next in The Green Lantern #9)

Ma Zorne (first appearance; also in flashback; Zarl Vorne's adoptive mother)

Pa Zorne (first appearance; also in flashback; Zarl Vorne's adoptive father)

Zarl Vorne's biological father (first appearance; in flashback; presumably dies)

Zarl Vorne's biological mother (first appearance; in flashback; presumably dies)

other inhabitants of Juno (first appearance for all)

Location(s):

Space Sector 2814

Earth

Ancient Atlantis (in flashback)

Smallville

Juno (first appearance)

Midville

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Third Story: "The Super-Robot" (6 Pages)

Credits:

Story	Otto Binder
Pencils	Curt Swan
Inks	George Giunta (?)
Editing	Mort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Superboy (last in the second story in this issue; next in Adventure Comics #230)

Villain(s):

Silky (first appearance; a swindler)

Monk (first appearance; his dimwitted accomplice)

Other Character(s):

Pop Peabody (first appearance; a sculptor)

a "Superboy robot" (first appearance; created by Monk and used to scam Pop Peabody,operated by remote control and only possesses super-strength)

Location(s):

Smallville

Story Reprinted in:

Superboy Vol. 1 #163/2 (March 1970)

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