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Superboy 123

SUPERBOY #123

Cover Date: September 1965
Cover Price: $.12
Publication Date: 1965-07-01

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Cover Credits:
Pencils: Curt Swan
Inks: George Klein


Story: "There Is No Superboy" (8 Pages)

Credits:

StoryOtto Binder
ArtGeorge Papp
LetteringVivian Berg
EditingMort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Superboy (see Comments)

Supporting Character(s):

Chief Parker

Villain(s):

"Piledriver" Pete Jarvis
"Hi"-Jack David
John "Goldy" Silver
"Ratatat" Reagan
twenty one other unidentified criminals

Other Character(s):

Sheriff Todd of Gulchdale
County Commissioner of Jails

Location(s):

Gulchdale
Smallville

Comment(s):

This story is not considered in continuity.
This story occurs very early in Superboy's career, when few outside of Smallville had heard of him.


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Second Story: "When Krypto Was Sold" (8 Pages)

Credits:

StoryEdmond Hamilton
ArtGeorge Papp
LetteringVivian Berg
EditingMort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Superboy (last in Adventure Comics #334; next in the third story in this issue)

Supporting Character(s):

Krypto (also poses as "Sport" and is temporarily sold by Clark to Ronnie Vayle; in between issues #122/3 and #125/2)

Villain(s):

two burglars (first appearance for both)

Other Character(s):

Ronnie Vayle (first appearance; a spoiled rich teenager)
Smallville High students

Location(s):

Space Sector 2814
Earth
Smallville
Unidentified Space Sector(s)
a meteoroid (used by Krypto as a temporary Hall of Trophies)
Echo World (first mentioned)


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Third Story: "The Curse of the Superboy Mummy!" (8 Pages)

Credits:

StoryLeo Dorfman
PencilsCurt Swan
InksGeorge Klein
LetteringMilt Snapinn
EditingMort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Superboy (last in the second story in this issue; next in Adventure Comics #335)

Supporting Character(s):

Lana Lang (in between issues #122/3 and #124)

Villain(s):

An evil magician (first appearance; adversary of Ahtom in Egypt 3000 BC)

Other Character(s):

Ahton (first appearance; royal magician in 3000 BC Egypt; deceased by the present day)
Seth (first appearance; his son, becomes "Super-Youth;" dies)
Neferti (first appearance; a Lana Lang look-alike in 300 BC: dies)
Isis

Location(s):

Egypt (also in 3000 BC)
Smallville

Comment(s):

A few weeks pass in both the present and in 3000 BC.


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