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SUPERBOY #88

Cover Date: April 1961
Cover Price: $.10
Publication Date: 1961-02-16

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Cover Credits:
Pencils: Curt Swan
Inks: Stan Kaye

Story: "The Invader from Earth!" (9 Pages)

Credits:

Story	Jerry Coleman
Art	Al Plastino
Editing	Mort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Superboy (last in Adventure Comics #282; next in the second story in this issue)

Other Character(s):

an unidentified alien race (first appearance for all; red skinned, tribal humanoids)

another unidentified alien race (first appearance for all; an advanced, human-like species; in flashback only)

Location(s):

Unidentified Space Sector

two unidentified planets (one in flashback only)

Story Reprinted in:

Superboy Vol. 1 #145/2 (March 1968)

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Second Story: "The One-Man Team!" (9 Pages)

Credits:

Story	Robert Bernstein
Art	George Papp
Editing	Mort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

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

Supporting Character(s):

Jonathan Kent (last in Adventure Comics #282; next in the third story in this issue)

Martha Kent (last in issue #87/3; next in Adventure Comics #283)

Lana Lang (last in Adventure Comics #282; next in the third story in this issue)

Lewis Lang (last/next in ???)

Chief Parker (last in Adventure Comics #258; next in the third story in this issue)

Villain(s):

Duke and his gang (first appearance for all)

Other Character(s):

Principal Standish (last/next in ???)

Rubek (a football player for Metropolis)

Kendal (a football player for Smallville)

Smallville High's football coach

citizens of Smallville

Location(s):

Smallville

Story Reprinted in:

Superboy Vol. 1 #205 (November-December 1974)

Superboy Spectacular #1/4 (1980)

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Third Story: "The Saddest Boy in Smallville!" (8 Pages)

Credits:

Story	Bill Finger
Art	George Papp
Editing	Mort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Superboy (last in the second story in this issue; next in Adventure Comics #283)

Supporting Character(s):

Jonathan Kent (last in the second story in this issue; next in Adventure Comics #283)

Lana Lang (last in the second story in this issue; next in Adventure Comics #283)

Chief Parker (last in the second story in this issue; next in issue #89)

Villain(s):

The "ABC" Gang (Al Kane, Bill, and Chuck; first appearance for all)

Other Character(s):

Tommy Hunter (first appearance; a Smallville High student, embarrassed by his father's job as a doorman)

James Hunter (first appearance; Tommy's father)

Miss Kaye (first appearance; a teacher)

Smallville High students (Johnny named)

Location(s):

Smallville

Story Reprinted in:

Best of DC #15 (August 1981)

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