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Issue Details

Issue #1
Published Summer 1964
Cover Price 0.25 USD
Pages 84
Editing Mort Weisinger
Notes On sale April 23rd 1964

Cover Details

Characters Superboy [Clark Kent, Superbaby]; Power-Boy; Krypto; Joe Timmons the Barber; British Bobby
Genre superhero
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks George Klein

9 page Superboy story "The Return of Jor-El and Lara"

Characters Superboy [Clark Kent]; Jor-El; Lara; Jonathan Kent; Martha Kent;
Synopsis Jor-El and Lara mysteriously arrive in Smallville and make plans to move to another world taking Superboy and the Kents with them
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils John Sikela
Inks John Sikela
Reprinted from Superboy (1949 series) #74 (July 1959)

7 page Superboy story "The Voyage to New Krypton"

Characters Superboy [Clark Kent]; Jor-El; Lara; Jonathan Kent; Martha Kent; Lana Lang; Krypto
Synopsis The extended family move to the new planet, but on this world they have no super powers.
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils John Sikela
Inks John Sikela
Notes 4 panels cut
Reprinted from Superboy (1949 series) #74 (July 1959)

8 page Superboy story "The Orphan of Steel"

Characters Superboy [Clark Kent]; Jor-El; Lara; Jonathan Kent; Martha Kent; Krypto
Synopsis Superboy leaves their new world on a mission for Jor-El, but a rogue meteor wipes out New Krypton and leaves him an orphan yet again.
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils John Sikela
Inks John Sikela
Reprinted from Superboy (1949 series) #74 (July 1959)

Half page text article "Ways in which Red Kryptonite Has Affected Superboy"

9 page Superboy story "Superbaby in Scotland Yard"

Characters Superboy [Superbaby (flashback)]; Jonathan Kent; Martha Kent; Sir Chadwick
Synopsis Visiting Scotland Yard in London, Superboy is prompted to recall an earlier trip to the home of Great Britain's Police Force
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Stan Kaye
Reprinted from Superboy (1949 series) #73 (June 1959)

13 page Superboy story "The Blind Boy of Steel"

Characters Superboy [Clark Kent]; Jonathan Kent; Martha Kent; Lana Lang; Krypto
Synopsis When a freak accident gives Superboy diamond vision, he must bandage his eyes and use Krypto as a super-seeing eye dog
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils George Papp
Inks George Papp
Reprinted from Adventure Comics (1938 series) #259 (April 1959)

Half page promo (ad from the publisher) "Superman TV Series"

Notes List of stations carrying the Adventures of Superman TV show.

10 page Superboy story "How Superboy Learned to Fly"

Characters Superboy [Clark Kent]; Jonathan Kent; Martha Kent; Captain Burton
Synopsis Whilst mastering his flying ability, Superboy unwittingly discredits a pilot who has witnessed him in flight, only by revealing his existence can the Boy of Steel save the airman's career.
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils John Sikela
Inks John Sikela
Reprinted from Superboy (1949 series) #69 (December 1958)

Half page text article "Superboy's Kryptonian Ancestors"

8 page Superboy story "The Day Clark Kent Got a Haircut"

Characters Superboy [Clark Kent]; Jonathan Kent; Martha Kent; Joe Timmons
Synopsis When Smallville's barber, Joe Timmons, suspects that Clark must be Superboy as he had never been in for a haircut, the Boy of Steel concocts a scheme to put him off the scent
Genre superhero
Script Robert Bernstein
Pencils John Sikela
Inks John Sikela
Reprinted from Superboy (1949 series) #76 (October 1959)

8 page Superboy story "The Power-Boy From Earth"

Characters Superboy; Power-Boy [Zarl Vorne]; Ma and Pa Vorne
Synopsis On the Planet Juno, Superboy encounters Power-Boy, an Atlantean survivor from the Earth of 10,000 years ago. Awoken from suspended animation he became his new world's champion, however his one weakness ensures that he and Superboy can never make contact again
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Stan Kaye?
Notes Inker id by Bob Hughes August 2005
Reprinted from Superboy (1949 series) #52 (October 1956)

Half page text article "The Phantom Zone Criminals"

Reprinted in Superboy (DC, 1949 series) #165

8 page Superboy story "The Space Adventures of Krypto"

Characters Krypto; Superboy
Synopsis Krypto encounters a space cat, becomes a dog king and escapes from an asteroid of deadly traps on his outer space travels.
Genre superhero
Script Jerry Siegel
Pencils George Papp
Inks George Papp
Reprinted from Superboy (1949 series) #77 (December 1959)

Half page cover reprint (on interior page) "Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen #31 cover"

Genre Superhero
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Stan Kaye
Notes Al Plastino as well
Reprinted from Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen (DC, 1954 series) #31 (September 1958) [1/4 page]

Half page cover reprint (on interior page) "Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen #32 cover"

Genre Superhero
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Stan Kaye
Reprinted from Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen (DC, 1954 series) #32 (October 1958) [1/4 page]

Half page cover reprint (on interior page) "Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen #30 cover"

Genre Superhero
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Stan Kaye
Reprinted from Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen (DC, 1954 series) #30 (August 1958) [1/4 page]

Half page cover reprint (on interior page) "Action Comics #253 cover"

Genre Superhero
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Stan Kaye
Reprinted from Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #253 (June 1959) [1/4 page]