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SUPERBOY #72

Cover Date: April 1959
Cover Price: $.10
Publication Date: 1959-02-19

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Cover Credits:
Pencils: Curt Swan
Inks: Stan Kaye


Story: "Rebello the Human Robot" (10 Pages)

Credits:

StoryOtto Binder
ArtJohn Sikela
EditingMort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Superboy (last in Adventure Comics #258; next in the second story in this issue)

Supporting Character(s):

Jonathan Kent (last in issue #71/3; next in Adventure Comics #259)
Lana Lang (last in Adventure Comics #258; next in the second story in this issue)

Villain(s):

Rebello (first appearance; an improved, self-aware version of the Superboy robots; later destroyed)

Other Character(s):

Smallville High School students
Superman Robots

Location(s):

Smallville

Comment(s):

Superboy shows a blueprint of his robots.


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Second Story: "The Day Superboy Was a Coward!" (9 Pages)

Credits:

StoryOtto Binder
ArtGeorge Papp
Assistant editingE. Nelson Bridwell
EditingMort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Superboy (in between the first and the third stories in this issue; also in flashback; last/next in ???)

Supporting Character(s):

Jonathan Kent (in flashback; last/next in ???)
Martha Kent (in flashback; last/next in ???)
Lana Lang (in between the first and the third stories in this issue)

Villain(s):

The Uniform Gang (first appearance of all; in flashback; "Trigger" Jones named, dies)
Pug Waters (first appearance; in flashback; a bully)

Other Character(s):

Tom Keating (first appearance; in flashback; a student in gym class)
Mr. Danberry (first appearance; in flashback; owner of a sporting goods store)
Smallville Police

Cameo Appearance(s):

Jor-El (in a dream)

Location(s):

Smallville

Comment(s):

The flashbacks take place early in Superboy's crime-fighting career.

Story Reprinted in:

Adventure Comics #325/2 (October 1964)


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Third Story: "The Flying Girl of Smallville!" (7 Pages)

Credits:

StoryJerry Coleman
ArtCreig Flessel
EditingMort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Superboy (last in the second story in this issue; next in Adventure Comics #259)

Supporting Character(s):

Lana Lang (last in the second story in this issue; next in Adventure Comics #259)

Other Character(s):

U.S. military officers

Location(s):

Egypt
United States of America
Smallville

Comment(s):

Superboy hooks Lana Lang up to a belt which enables him to transfer his flight powers to her. He ends it prior to the three hour mark when the transfer would be permanent.

Story Reprinted in:

80 Page Giant Magazine #3/3 (September 1964)


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