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Issue Details

Issue #177
Published September 1971
Cover Price 0.25 USD
Pages 52
Editing Murray Boltinoff

Cover Details - "Our Traitor Super-Son"

Characters Superboy; Jonathan Kent; Martha Kent
Genre Superhero
Pencils Dick Giordano (signed)
Inks Dick Giordano (signed)

15 page Superboy story "Our Traitor Super-Son!"

Characters Superboy [Clark Kent]; Jonathan Kent; Martha Kent; Cerebron [Lex Luthor]; Lana Lang
Synopsis Superboy makes it seem that he has turned on his foster parents in order to protect them from Luthor's latest scheme against him.
Genre Superhero
Script Leo Dorfman
Pencils Bob Brown
Inks Murphy Anderson

7 page Superboy story "Plague from the Past!"

Characters Superboy; Jonathan Kent; Martha Kent
Synopsis Superboy accidentally unleashes a plague from an ancient Egyptian artifact, but is able to turn back the clock and prevent the epidemic.
Genre Superhero
Script Leo Dorfman
Pencils Bob Brown
Inks Murphy Anderson
Reprinted in Best of DC, The (DC, 1979 series) #7

10 page Legion of Super-Heroes story "The Revenge of the Knave from Krypton! [The Revenge of the Knave of Krypton!]"

Characters Legion of Super-Heroes [Superboy [also as Clark Kent]; Chameleon Boy; Mon-El; Element Lad; Saturn Girl; Lightning Lad; Sun Boy; Brainiac 5]; Dev-Em; Radiation Roy; Proty II; Krypto; Molock
Synopsis Dev-Em arrives at Legion headquarters as a member of the Inter-Stellar Counter-Intelligence Corps on a mission to nab the elusive leader of the Cosmic Spy Legion, Morlock the Merciless, but loses the assignment to Superboy.
Genre Superhero
Script Jerry Siegel; Otto Binder (pgs. 4-9)
Pencils John Forte (pgs. 1-3, 10); George Papp (pgs. 4-9)
Inks Sheldon Moldoff (pgs. 1-3, 10); George Papp (pgs. 4-9); Al Plastino (Superboy and Clark Kent faces)
Notes There is an "Editor's Note" at the bottom of the first page announcing the change in frequency of Superboy from 8-times a year to monthly.
Reprinted from Adventure Comics (1938 series) #320

7 page Legion of Super-Heroes story "The Treachery of Molock the Merciless! [The Revenge of the Knave of Krypton!]"

Characters Legion of Super-Heroes [Superboy; Brainiac 5; Sun Boy, Chameleon Boy; Element Lad; Lightning Lad; Mon-El]; Dev-Em; Molock; Proty II
Synopsis Superboy successfully completes Dev-Em's mission, with Proty II's help.
Genre Superhero
Script Jerry Siegel
Pencils John Forte
Inks Sheldon Moldoff
Reprinted from Adventure Comics (1938 series) #320