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SUPERBOY #68

Cover Date: October 1958
Cover Price: $.10
Publication Date: 1958-08-21

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Cover Credits:
Pencils: Curt Swan
Inks: Stan Kaye

Story: "The Boy of Steel Versus the Thing of Steel" (24 Pages) Chapter I: "The Amazing Bizarro"
Chapter II: "The Runaway Super-Creature"
Chapter III: "The Battle with Bizarro"

Credits:

Story	Otto Binder
Art	George Papp
Editing	Mort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Superboy (in between Adventure Comics #252 and #271)

Supporting Character(s):

Martha Kent (in between Adventure Comics #252 and #253)

Villain(s):

Bizarro (first appearance; destroyed; see Comments)

Other Character(s):

Professor Dalton (first appearance; invents a duplicator ray which makes imperfect copies, leading to the creation of Bizarro)

Melissa (first appearance; a blind girl; regains her sight after Bizarro's destruction)

Melissa's aunt (first appearance)

Hiram (first appearance; a farmer)

Hilda (first appearance; his wife)

citizens of Smallville

Location(s):

Metropolis

Smallville

Comment(s):

Years later, in Action Comics #254 (July 1959): "The Battle with Bizarro," Lex Luthor steals the plans for Professor Dalton's duplicator ray and creates a new Bizarro.

Story Reprinted in:

Superman Annual #2/5 ([Winter] 1960)

DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest #15 (November 1981)

The Greatest Superman Stories Ever Told (1987 [March 1988])

The Greatest Superman Stories Ever Told (1987 [May 1989])

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