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Issue Details

Issue #77
Published December 1959
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Mort Weisinger

Cover Details - "Superboy's Best Friend!"

Characters Freddy Shaw; Superboy
Genre superhero
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Stan Kaye

8 page Superboy story "The Space Adventures of Krypto!"

Characters Krypto; Kryptonite
Genre superhero
Script Jerry Siegel
Pencils George Papp
Inks George Papp
Reprinted in Superboy Annual (DC, 1964 series) #1 (Summer 1964)

Half page Honey in Hollywood filler "Why there's B.G., the big producer!"

Genre superhero
Script Henry Boltinoff
Pencils Henry Boltinoff
Inks Henry Boltinoff
Letters Henry Boltinoff

1 page public service announcement "The Atom Servant of Man"

Genre fact
Script Jack Schiff
Pencils Morris Waldinger
Inks Tommy Nicolosi
Letters Ira Schnapp

8 page Superboy story "The Grandson of Steel!"

Characters Hiram Kent (introduction); Edith Kent (introduction); Superbaby; Martha Kent; Jonathan Kent
Synopsis Ma and Pa leave baby Clark to stay with his grandparents for a little while.
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder ?
Pencils John Sikela
Inks John Sikela
Reprinted in Superman (DC, 1939 series) #212 (December 1968)

9 page Superboy story "Superboy's Best Friend!"

Characters Superboy; Jonathan Kent; Martha Kent; Jack; Freddy Shaw (introduction, dies); Superboy robots; Freddy Shaw robot; Mr. Gray (a teacher); Dr. Kenyon; Joe Shaw; Rick Farrow
Synopsis Freddy Shaw becomes Clark Kent's best friend and is let in on his secret identity as Superboy. Freddy proceeds to blab to his ex-convict half-brother, Joe, and his buddy Rick Farrow and finally in his last few hours to anyone who was close to his death bed. All of Freddy's blabbing was caused by his brain fever delirium.
Genre superhero
Script Robert Bernstein
Pencils George Papp
Inks George Papp
Notes Script credit from Martin O'Hearn. Freddy appears to be a prototype for Pete Ross, whose appearance is identical.
Reprinted in Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #319 (April 1964).