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Superboy 82

SUPERBOY #82

Cover Date: July 1965
Cover Price: $.10
Publication Date: 1960-05-19

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Cover Credits:
Pencils: Curt Swan
Inks: Stan Kaye


Story: "The War Against Superboy!" (26 Pages)
Chapter 1: "The Battle of the Robots!"
Part II: "The Battle of Krypto!"
Chapter III: "The Battle of Superboy!"

Credits:

StoryJerry Siegel
ArtJohn Sikela
EditingMort 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
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)


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