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Superboy 87

SUPERBOY #87

Cover Date: March 1961
Cover Price: $.10
Publication Date: 1961-01-05

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Cover Credits:
Pencils: Curt Swan
Inks: Stan Kaye


Story: "When Lana Lang First Suspected Clark Kent" (9 Pages)

Credits:

StoryRobert Bernstein
ArtGeorge Papp
EditingMort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Superboy (last in Adventure Comics #281; next in the second story in this issue; also in flashbacks; last/next in ???)

Supporting Character(s):

Jonathan Kent (last in Adventure Comics #281; next in the third story in this issue; also in flashbacks; last/next in ???)
Martha Kent (last in Adventure Comics #281; next in the third story in this issue)
Lana Lang (in between Adventure Comics #281 and #282; also in flashback, last in issue #10; next in New Adventures of Superboy #18/2)
Lewis Lang (in flashback; last/next in ???)

Other Character(s):

Superboy and Clark Kent robots
Dr. Muir (first appearance; in flashback)
Dr. Horten (first appearance; in flashback; a dentist and Lana's uncle)
Miss Hale (first appearance; in flashback; the school nurse)
two moving men (first appearance for both; in flashback)
Clark and Lana's classmates (also in flashback)

Location(s):

Smallville

Story Reprinted in:

Superboy Vol. 1 #135 (January 1967)


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Second Story: "Krypto's First Romance" (9 Pages)

Credits:

StoryJerry Siegel
ArtGeorge Papp
EditingMort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

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

Supporting Character(s):

Krypto (last in issue #86/3; next in Adventure Comics #283)

Villain(s):

Lanthians (first appearance; natives of Mogar, members of a hostile nation)
Rollops (first appearance; natives of Mogar, members of their equally hostile rival nation)

Other Character(s):

Kolli (first appearance; a dog from Mogar; thanks to Krypto, gains super powers from a pool on Zena, but her presence neutralizes his powers)

Location(s):

Space Sector 2814
Earth
Smallville
Unidentified Space Sector(s)
Mogar (first appearance)
Lanthia
Rollop
Zena (first appearance)

Story Reprinted in:

Superboy Vol. 1 #134/2 (December 1966)


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Third Story: "The Scarlet Jungle of Krypton" (9 Pages)
An Untold Story of Superboy

Credits:

StoryJerry Siegel
ArtGeorge Papp
EditingMort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Superboy (last in the second story in this issue; next in Adventure Comics #282; also in flashback as baby Kal-El; last in flashback in issue Superboy Vol. 1 #83/3; next in flashback in issue #106/2)

Supporting Character(s):

Jonathan Kent (last in the first story in this issue; next in Adventure Comics #282)
Martha Kent (last in the first story in this issue; next in issue #88/2)
Jor-El (in flashback; in between the flashback in Adventure Comics #287 and the flashback in #313/2)
Lara Jor-El (in flashback; last/next in ???)
Krypto (in flashback; last in the flashback in issue #83/3; next in Adventure Comics #210)

Villain(s):

various beasts in the Scarlet Jungle (including the first appearance of a Thought-Beast)

Location(s):

Space Sector 2813
Krypton
Kryptonopolis (in flashback)
Scarlet Jungle (in flashback)
Space Sector 2814
Earth
Smallville

Comment(s):

This is Chapter III of "Life on Krypton."


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