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Superboy 53

SUPERBOY #53

Cover Date: December 1956
Cover Price: $0.10
Publication Date: 1956-09-30

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Cover Credits:
Pencils: Curt Swan
Inks: Ray Burnley


Story: "The Suit of Steel" (8 Pages)

Credits:

StoryOtto Binder
ArtJohn Sikela
EditingMort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Superboy (last in Adventure Comics #230; next in the second story in this issue)

Supporting Character(s):

Martha Kent (last in issue #52; next in the third story in this issue)
Lana Lang (last in issue #52; next in the third story in this issue)

Villain(s):

a robber (first appearance; buys Superboy's shirt to use during robberies as it is bullet proof)

Other Character(s):

four hobos (first appearance for all; find Superboy's discarded costume and divvy it up between themselves)
Miguel (first appearance; a famous Mexican bullfighter; buys Superboy's cape to use in bullfights)
two meteorologists (first appearance for both; buy Superboy's pants to use as an indestructible weather balloon)

Location(s):

Mexico
unidentified location (site of a bullfight)
United States of America
Smallville


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Second Story: "The Super Zoo from Krypton" (8 Pages)

Credits:

StoryOtto Binder
ArtJohn Sikela
EditingMort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Superboy (in between the first and the third stories in this issue)

Supporting Character(s):

Lewis Lang (in between issues #52 and #55/3)

Villain(s):

Blacky Stone (first appearance; a criminal)

Other Character(s):

citizens of Smallville
a Kryptonian zoo keeper (first appearance; in flashback; sends four eggs in a rocket to survive Krypton's destruction; see Comments; likely dies)

Location(s):

Space Sector 2813
Krypton (in flashback)
Space Sector 2814
Earth
Smallville
Unidentified Space Sector
an unidentified planet (becomes the new home of the Kryptonian animals)

Comment(s):

One of the four Kryptonian creatures, which looks like a cross between a starfish and a television set; possesses powers somewhat like Kryptonian Thought-Beasts, but the "Screen" shows what someone nearby is thinking, rather than what the creature is thinking.

Story Reprinted in:

Superboy Vol. 1 #174 (May-June 1971)


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Third Story: "Superboy's Switch in Time" (8 Pages)

Credits:

StoryOtto Binder (?), Jerry Coleman (?)
PencilsCurt Swan
InksJohn Giunta (?), John Fischetti (?)
EditingMort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Superboy (last in the second story in this issue; next in Adventure Comics #231)

Guest Star(s):

Superman (last in World's Finest Comics #85; next in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #17)

Supporting Character(s):

Jonathan Kent (last in issue #52; next in Adventure Comics #231)
Martha Kent (last in the first story in this issue; next in Adventure Comics #231)
Lana Lang (last in the first story in this issue; next in issue #54/2)

Villain(s):

Professor Amos Weldon (first appearance; sends Superboy forward in time which has the unexpected consequence of having Superman appear in the Boy of Steel's place; see Comments)
his unidentified accomplice

Other Character(s):

citizens of Smallville

Location(s):

the Arctic Circle (in 1956 - Superman's "present day")
Smallville

Comment(s):

After the events of this story have concluded, the memories of all involved fade and they believe it to be a daydream.

Story Reprinted in:

Adventure Comics #320/2 (May 1964)


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