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SUPERBOY #57

Cover Date: June 1957
Cover Price: $0.10
Publication Date: 1957-04-02

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Cover Credits:
Pencils: Curt Swan
Inks: Stan Kaye

Story: "The Strong Boys of Smallville" (8 Pages)

Credits:

Story	Otto Binder
Pencils	Curt Swan
Inks	Ray Burnley (?)
Editing	Mort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Superboy (last in Adventure Comics #236; next in the second story in this issue)

Supporting Character(s):

Lana Lang (last in Adventure Comics #236; next in the third story in this issue)

Villain(s):

Dr. Thornton J. Peabody ("Doc" Thorne, first appearance; a swindler posing as the creator of a strength tonic, opens a gym in Smallville)

Tommy Thorne (first appearance; "Doc's" younger brother; a circus strong boy)

two other accomplices (first appearance for both)

Other Character(s):

numerous teenage boys

police sergeant

Location(s):

Smallville

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Second Story: "The Boy of the Year Contest!" (8 Pages)

Credits:

Story	Otto Binder
Art	John Sikela
Editing	Mort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

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

Villain(s):

a boy inventor (first appearance; contestant in the "Boy of the Year" competition; cheats and tries to pin the blame on Superboy)

Other Character(s):

a boy acrobat (first appearance; contestant in the "Boy of the Year" competition)

a boy lion tamer (first appearance; contestant in the "Boy of the Year" competition)

a boy musician (first appearance; contestant in the "Boy of the Year" competition)

Officer Clancy (first appearance; nominates Clark Kent as "Boy of the Year;" believing it impossible that Clark Kent could be Superboy, misinterprets Clark hiding Superboy's costume as Clark trying to keep the super costume away from criminals after the Boy of Steel had "lost" his costume)

judges and spectators at the "Boy of the Year" competition (first appearance)

Location(s):

Smallville

Story Reprinted in:

100-Page Super-Spectacular #DC-15/3 (March 1973)

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Third Story: "The One-Man Baseball Team" (8 Pages)

Credits:

Story	Otto Binder
Pencils	Curt Swan
Inks	John Giunta (?)
Assistant editing	E. Nelson Bridwell
Editing	Mort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Superboy (next in Adventure Comics #237)

Supporting Character(s):

Lana Lang (last in the first story in this issue; next in Adventure Comics #237)

Other Character(s):

Roger Ames (first appearance; a millionaire baseball fan)

U.S. All-Stars (first appearance; a baseball team)

Location(s):

Japan

United States of America

Smallville

Story Reprinted in:

Adventure Comics #334/2 (July 1964)

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