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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
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Credits:
Story | Otto Binder |
Art | John Sikela |
Editing | Mort 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
Credits:
Story | Otto Binder |
Art | John Sikela |
Editing | Mort Weisinger |
Feature Character(s):
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
- 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)
Credits:
Story | Otto Binder (?), Jerry Coleman (?) |
Pencils | Curt Swan |
Inks | John Giunta (?), John Fischetti (?) |
Editing | Mort 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)