Superboy
#188
(July 1972)
DC,
1949 Series
- Volume
- 24
- Price
- 0.20 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly, (semi-monthly May)
- On-sale Date
- 1972-05-25
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- National Periodical Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
DC [circle]
- Printer
- Printed in U.S.A.
- Editing
- Murray Boltinoff (editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from Comic Reader #84.
Super-Savage Lord of the Concrete Jungle
Superboy / cover / 1 page
- Job Number
- B-1401
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Superboy [Clark Kent]
- Reprints
in 
Super-Savage -- Master of Metropolis
Superboy / comic story / 13.67 pages
- Job Number
- B-1362
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Do not fear the fangs of this metal beast!
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Superboy [Clark Kent]; Toni Davis; Aunt Vera; Uncle Karl; J.R. Torrens
- Synopsis
- Imaginary story where Superboy lands in the jungle and is raised by apes.
- Reprints
Curse of the Blood-Crystals!
Legion of Super-Heroes / comic story / 10 pages
- Job Number
- B-1364
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Until recently, Superboy was shown
- Feature Logo
A New Tale of the Legion of Super-Heroes- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Legion of Super-Heroes: Brainiac 5 [Querl Dox]; Chameleon Boy [Reep Daggle]; Lightning Lad [Garth Ranzz]; Phantom Girl [Tinya Wazzo]; Superboy [Clark Kent]; Ultra Boy [Jo Nah]
- Synopsis
- Influenced by crystals Mordru created in Superboy's time and cast by Superboy into space, Chameleon Boy takes Ultra Boy's place and visits Superboy. Ultra Boy alerts Brainiac 5 and Lightning Lad to the switch and they visit Superboy as well, but Chameleon Boy, as Superboy, assures them that he has everything under control. Superboy is able turn the tables on Cham and to reverse the effects of his exposure to Mordru's crystals by momentarily burying him.
- Reprints
-
in MV Comix (Egmont Ehapa, 1968 series) #27/1972 (30. Dezember 1972) -
in Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes (Tempo Books, 1977 series) #14535 (1977) [reformatted] - in The Legion of Super-Heroes Archives (DC, 1991 series) #10 ([December] 2000)
- in Showcase Presents: Legion of Super-Heroes (DC, 2007 series) #4 ([November] 2010)
-
- Keywords
- green kryptonite
Indexer Notes
Lettering credit from reprint in Legion Archives.
[no title indexed]
Smallville Mailsack / letters page / 1 page
- Script
- Murray Boltinoff
- Pencils
- ? (logo illustration)
- Inks
- ? (logo illustration)
- Colors
- ? (logo illustration)
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- B-1395
- Characters
- Superboy; Krypto
Indexer Notes
Letter from Frances (West New York). Excerpts of letters from Gerard Triano, Sarah Finnegan, Nat Aiken, Bobby L. Crook, Mike Fitzhugh, Elizabeth Harllee.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
Super-Savage Lord of the Concrete Jungle
Superboy -
1.
Super-Savage -- Master of Metropolis
Superboy -
2.
[no title indexed]
Direct Currents -
3.
Curse of the Blood-Crystals!
Legion of Super-Heroes -
4.
[no title indexed]
Smallville Mailsack
This issue was modified by, among others
- Valmiki Annamanthadoo
- Nick Caputo
- CTGarry
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Denys Howard
- Bob Hughes
- Mike Nielsen
- Tony R. Rose
- Allen Ross
- Jason Sacks
- Per Sandell
- Jim Stangas
- Daniel Thingvold
- Andrew S. Troth
- Jim Van Dore
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