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SUPERBOY #76

Cover Date: October 1959
Cover Price: $.10
Publication Date: 1959-08-20

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Cover Credits:
Pencils: Curt Swan
Inks: Stan Kaye


Story: "The Super-Monkey from Krypton" (9 Pages)

Credits:

StoryOtto Binder
ArtGeorge Papp
EditingMort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Superboy (last in Adventure Comics #264; next in the second story in this issue; also in flashback as Superbaby; in between the flashbacks in issues #73 and 77/2)

Supporting Character(s):

Super-Monkey (first appearance; in flashback; last chronological appearance and named "Beppo" in flashback in Superman Vol. 1 #173/2 [Page 1, panel 3]; next chronological appearance in flashback in Superman Vol. 1 #173/2 [Page 2, Panel 5-Page 3, Panel 2])
Jonathan Kent (last in Adventure Comics #264; next in the second story in this issue; also in flashback, in between the flashbacks in issues #73 and 77/2)
Martha Kent (last in Adventure Comics #264; next in the second story in this issue; also in flashback, last in flashback in issue; also in flashback, in between the flashbacks in issues #73 and 77/2)

Other Character(s):

An organ-grinder (first appearance; in flashback)
Beppo (first appearance; the organ-grinder's monkey; in flashback)

Location(s):

Africa (in flashback)
Smallville (also in flashbacks)

Story Reprinted in:

Superman Annual #5/5 (Summer 1962)
DC Goes Ape #1 ([December] 2008)


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Second Story: "The Biggest Bully in Smallville!" (9 Pages)

Credits:

StoryAlvin Schwartz
ArtJohn Sikela
EditingMort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

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

Supporting Character(s):

Krypto (in between Adventure Comics #264 and #265)
Jonathan Kent (in between the first and the third stories in this issue)
Martha Kent (last in the first story in this issue; next in Adventure Comics #265)

Villain(s):

Brick Ransome (first appearance; a juvenile delinquent; briefly fostered by the Kent family)
John Desmond (first appearance; a juvenile delinquent; briefly fostered by a family in Smallville)
Warder (first appearance; a juvenile delinquent; briefly fostered by a family in Smallville)

Other Character(s):

a judge
Smallville High students and a teacher

Location(s):

Smallville


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Third Story: "The Day Clark Kent Got a Haircut!" (8 Pages)

Credits:

StoryRobert Bernstein
ArtJohn Sikela
EditingMort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Superboy (last in the second story in this issue; next in Adventure Comics #265)

Supporting Character(s):

Jonathan Kent (last in the second story in this issue; next in Adventure Comics #265)

Other Character(s):

Joe Timmons (first appearance; the town barber)
citizens of Smallville
Superboy robots and a Clark Kent robot

Location(s):

Smallville

Comment(s):

To keep his secret identity from being discovered by Smallville's barber, Clark feigns being secretly bald to avoid the barber cutting his indestructible hair.
This story begins on a Saturday.

Story Reprinted in:

Superboy Annual #1/5 (Summer 1964)
Best of DC #15 (August 1981)


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