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Issue Details

Issue #106
Published July 1963
Cover Price 0.12
Pages 36
Editing Mort Weisinger

Cover Details

Genre superhero
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks George Klein

8 page Superboy story "The Great Superboy Hoax!"

Genre superhero
Script Edmond Hamilton
Pencils George Papp
Inks George Papp

8 page Superboy story "The Ordeal of Pete Ross! [The Great Superboy Hoax! Part 2]"

Genre superhero
Script Edmond Hamilton
Pencils George Papp
Inks George Papp

9 page Superboy; An Untold Story of Superbaby story "The Lair of Brainiac!"

Characters Superbaby [Clark Kent]; Superboy [Clark Kent]; Brainiac; Jonathan Kent; Martha Kent; Krypto (Cameo); Tagor; Renlo; Koko (Brainiac's pet); Jor-El (Cameo); Lara (Cameo)
Synopsis Brainiac kidnaps baby Kal-El intending to blackmail Jor-El into turning over one of his inventions, but under a yellow sun baby Kal-El gains super-powers and proves more than Brainiac can handle.
Genre superhero
Script Jerry Siegel
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks George Klein
Notes Mind Prober Ray story. Brainiac mentions that his home planet is Bryak, and that its population was wiped out by a plague. An editor's note says that Brainiac has a 200-year lifespan.
Reprinted in Superman Family (DC, 1974 series) #167 (October-November 1974); in Superboy (K. G. Murray, 1949 series) #98; in Superman in the Sixties (DC, 1999 series) #[nn]

Half page Peg filler

Genre gag
Script Henry Boltinoff
Pencils Henry Boltinoff
Inks Henry Boltinoff
Letters Henry Boltinoff