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ADVENTURE COMICS #283

Cover Date: April 1961
Cover Price: $.10
Publication Date: 1961-02-28

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Cover Credits:
Pencils: Curt Swan
Inks: Stan Kaye

Story: "The Phantom Superboy" (14 Pages)

Credits:

Story	Robert Bernstein
Art	George Papp
Assistant editing	E. Nelson Bridwell
Editing	Mort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Superboy (in between Superboy Vol. 1 #88/3 and #89)

Supporting Character(s):

Jonathan Kent (in between Superboy Vol. 1 #88/3 and #89)

Martha Kent (in between Superboy Vol. 1 #88/2 and #89)

Krypto (in between Superboy Vol. 1 #87/2 and #89)

Lana Lang (in between Superboy Vol. 1 #88/3 and #89)

Villain(s):

a gang of crooks

Phantom Zone Prisoners

General Zod (Dru-Zod; first appearance; in flashback; last chronological appearance in flashback in DC Comics Presents #84; next in issue #293)

Doctor Xadu (first appearance; in flashback; next in Superboy Vol. 1 #104)

Voidroids (first appearance; in flashback; General Zod's Bizarro-army, named in DC Comics Presents #97)

Other Character(s):

Lewis Lang (last in Superboy Vol. 1 #88/2; next in issue #285)

unidentified archaeologists

a malfunctioning Clark Kent robot

Kryptonians (in flashback)

Location(s):

Space Sector 2813

Krypton: (in flashbacks)

Kryptonopolis (not named)

Space Sector 2814

Earth

United States of America

New Mexico

Smallville

Phantom Zone (first appearance)

Comment(s):

The box of forbidden Kryptonian weapons was sent into Krypton's orbit by order of the Science Council as told in World of Krypton #3. Buried at sea by Superboy in this story, the weapons were resurfaced in Action Comics #297/2 (February 1963): "The Forbidden Weapons of Krypton" which introduced Kru-El and that he created the weapons.

Story Reprinted in:

Superboy Vol. 1 #165/4 (May-June 1970)

Superman: Tales from the Phantom Zone ([June] 2009)

Superman vs. Zod ([May] 2013)

Solicitation:

A box of dangerous Kryptonian weapons cast out into space by Jor-El are opened on Earth by Superboy, among them the Phantom Zone projector. First appearance of General Zod and the Phantom Zone.

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Second Story: "The Lion with the Double Identity" (7 Pages)

Credits:

Story	Robert Bernstein
Art	Howard Sherman
Assistant editing	E. Nelson Bridwell
Editing	Mort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Congorilla (Congo Bill; last in issue #281/2; next in Action Comics #280)

Supporting Character(s):

Janu the Jungle Boy (last in issue #281/2; next in DC Comics Presents #27/2)

Villain(s):

Tim Tully (first appearance; able to swap minds into a black-maned lion; also in flashback)

Location(s):

Africa

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