Unofficial Superboy Index |
Part II: "The Battle of Krypto!"
Chapter III: "The Battle of Superboy!"
Credits:
Story | Jerry Siegel |
Art | John Sikela |
Editing | Mort Weisinger |
Feature Character(s):
- Superboy (in between Adventure Comics #273 and #274; see Comments)
Supporting Character(s):
- Lana Lang (in between Adventure Comics #273 and #275; see Comments)
- Jonathan Kent (in between Adventure Comics #273 and #274)
- Martha Kent (in between Adventure Comics #273 and #274)
- Krypto (in between Adventure Comics #272 and #277)
Villain(s):
- The General (first appearance; see Comments; a former military officer turn gang leader)
- The Brain (first appearance; see Comments; a criminal scientist)
- The Crime Army (first appearance for all; see Comments; Pvt. Shorty and Lt. Finney named)
- an alien "eye creature" (first appearance; attacks Krypto)
Other Character(s):
- Superboy robots (destroyed; five merge into "Robot X;" later rebuilt)
- Krypto-Bizarro (first appearance; disintegrates after two hours)
- the Mayor and citizens of Smallville
Location(s):
- Space Sector 2814
- Earth
- Creighton Pass
- Fort Ferris (first appearance; an abandoned fort; somewhere between Metropolis and Smallville)
- Metropolis
- San Francisco
- Smallville
- Earth
- Unidentified Space Sector(s)
- Deep space
Comment(s):
- A year and a half pass during this story, starting roughly in January, ending the next year on July 4th.
- The Brain has no relation to his better known namesake, frequent Doom Patrol villain the Brain.
Story Reprinted in:
- Superboy Vol. 1 #138 (May-June 1967)