Superboy
#204
(September-October 1974)
DC,
1949 Series
- Volume
- 26
- Price
- 0.20 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1974-06-25
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- National Periodical Publications, Inc.
- Brand
-
The Line of DC Super-Stars
- Editing
- Murray Boltinoff
Issue Notes
On-sale date from Comic Reader #107.
The Legionnaire Nobody Remembered?
Legion of Super-Heroes; Superboy / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Nick Cardy
- Inks
- Nick Cardy
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- B-2167
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Legion of Super-Heroes [Lightning Lad; Saturn Girl; Superboy; Brainiac 5; Cosmic Boy]; Anti-Lad
- Reprints
-
in Superboy (Illustrerte Klassikere / Williams Forlag, 1969 series) #4/1975 ([april] 1975) -
in The Legion of Super-Heroes Archives (DC, 1991 series) #11 ([October] 2001) - in Showcase Presents: Legion of Super-Heroes (DC, 2007 series) #5 (2014 [February 2015])
-
in Stålpojken (Williams Förlags AB, 1969 series) #3/1975
-
Indexer Notes
Lightning Lad and Saturn Girl are in their present-day costumes on the cover, not the costumes they wear in the flashback story it reflects.
The Legionnaire Nobody Remembered
Legion of Super-Heroes; Superboy / comic story / 12 pages
- Script
- Cary Bates
- Pencils
- Mike Grell
- Inks
- Mike Grell
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Ben Oda
- Job Number
- B-2092
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Legion of Super-Heroes [Mon-El; Lightning Lad; Cosmic Boy; Superboy; Saturn Girl; Phantom Girl; Colossal Boy; Chameleon Boy; Brainiac 5]; Anti-Lad
- Synopsis
- The Legionnaires ponder a photo in their archives featuring a Legionnaire no one remembers, Anti-Lad. The readers are told how a time traveller from the far-distant future saw Superboy being rejected by the Legion in his initial tryout and went to the Legion's time to make sure they gave the Boy of Steel a second chance.
- Reprints
-
in Superman (Egmont Ehapa, 1966 series) #4/1975 (15. Februar 1975) - in Superboy (Illustrerte Klassikere / Williams Forlag, 1969 series) #4/1975 ([april] 1975)
-
in All Star Adventure Comic (K. G. Murray, 1959 series) #96 ([December 1975]) - in The Legion of Super-Heroes Archives (DC, 1991 series) #11 ([October] 2001)
- in Showcase Presents: Legion of Super-Heroes (DC, 2007 series) #5 (2014 [February 2015])
-
Indexer Notes
Lettering credit from reprint in Legion Archives.
In the sequences related to Superboy's initiation tests, the Legionnaires are wearing their classic Silver Age costumes, not the versions they wore in the actual story.
Brainiac 5's Secret Weakness!
Legion of Super-Heroes / comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- Cary Bates
- Pencils
- Mike Grell
- Inks
- Mike Grell
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Ben Oda
- Job Number
- B-2080
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Star Boy; Brainiac 5; Supergirl; Saturn Girl
- Synopsis
- Brainiac 5 misses Supergirl so much his subconscious mind creates an android version of her. When Brainy and his android get into trouble, the real Supergirl saves them and announces she is leaving the Legion.
- Reprints
- in Superman (Egmont Ehapa, 1966 series) #6/1975 (15. März 1975)
- in Superboy (Illustrerte Klassikere / Williams Forlag, 1969 series) #6/1975 ([juni] 1975)
- in The Legion of Super-Heroes Archives (DC, 1991 series) #11 ([October] 2001)
- in Showcase Presents: Legion of Super-Heroes (DC, 2007 series) #5 (2014 [February 2015])
-
Indexer Notes
Lettering credit from reprint in Legion Archives.
[no title indexed]
Super-Talk / letters page / 1 page
- Script
- Murray Boltinoff
- Pencils
- ? (logo illustration)
- Inks
- ? (logo illustration)
- Colors
- ? (logo illustration)
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- B-2164
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Dear creators of the greatest comics...
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Characters
- Mon-El; Superboy; Cosmic Boy; Saturn Girl
Indexer Notes
Excerpts from letters.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
The Legionnaire Nobody Remembered?
Legion of Super-Heroes; Superboy -
1.
The Legionnaire Nobody Remembered
Legion of Super-Heroes; Superboy -
2.
Brainiac 5's Secret Weakness!
Legion of Super-Heroes -
3.
["Dear creators of the greatest comics..."]
Super-Talk
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