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Issue: Superboy #188

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Publication Date: July 1972

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Issues: #188 of 230 Issues

Title:

Variant: unnamed

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

Brand: DC [character]

Indicia Publisher: National Periodical Publications, Inc.

On Sale Date: 05/25/1972

Volume: 24

Pages: 36

ISBN:

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.20 USD

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 5 (2 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s):

Notes: On-sale date from Comic Reader #84.

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: Color

Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U.S.; Standard Silver Age U.S.; Standard Modern Age U.S.

Paper Stock: Newsprint

Binding: Saddle-Stitched; Squarebound (#129, 138, 147, 156, 165, 185, 202, 205, 208)

Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series

Format Notes:

Reprinted In3

2 Content Items
- Super-Savage -- Master of Metropolis [Story on Interior Page(s)]1
- Curse of the Blood-Crystals! [Story on Interior Page(s)]2

reprinted 3 times as Content Items in other Issues.

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Content Items (5 total)

Super-Savage Lord of the Concrete Jungle

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Superboy [Karkan; Kal-El]

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Job Number: B-1401

Super-Savage -- Master of Metropolis

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Superboy [Karkan; Kal-El]; Toni Davis; Aunt Vera; Uncle Karl; J.R. Torrens

Synopsis: Imaginary story where Superboy lands in the jungle and is raised by apes.

Reprinting

In Content Item: Flag

Superboy #32 published July 1985
as Der Superwilde von Metropolis [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 13.67

Job Number: B-1362

[untitled]

Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Direct Currents

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 0.5

Curse of the Blood-Crystals!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Legion of Super-Heroes [Chameleon Boy [Reep Daggle]; Ultra Boy [Jo Nah]; Lightning Lad [Garth Ranzz]; Brainiac 5 [Querl Dox]; Phantom Girl [Tinya Wazzo]]; Superboy [Clark Kent; Kal-El]

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.

Reprinting

In Content Item: Flag

Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes #14535 published January 1977
as Curse of the Blood-Crystals! [Story on Interior Page(s)]reformatted

In Content Item: Flag

The Legion of Super-Heroes Archives #10 published December 2000
as Curse of the Blood-Crystals! [Story on Interior Page(s)]

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 10

Job Number: B-1364

Notes: Lettering credit from reprint in Legion Archives.

[untitled]

Letters Page on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Penciller(s): ? (logo illustration)

Inker(s): ? (logo illustration)

Colorist(s): ? (logo illustration)

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Character(s): Superboy; Krypto

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Job Number: B-1395

Notes: Letter from Frances (West New York). Excerpts of letters from Gerard Triano, Sarah Finnegan, Nat Aiken, Bobby L. Crook, Mike Fitzhugh, Elizabeth Harllee.