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Superboy 56

SUPERBOY #56

Cover Date: April 1957
Cover Price: $0.10
Publication Date: 1957-02-12

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Cover Credits:
Pencils: Curt Swan
Inks: Stan Kaye


Story: "The Secret of Fort Smallville" (10 Pages)

Credits:

StoryOtto Binder
ArtJohn Sikela
EditingMort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Superboy (last in Adventure Comics #234; next in the second story in this issue)

Supporting Character(s):

Lana Lang (last in Adventure Comics #234; next in the second story in this issue)

Villain(s):

Hal Howard (first appearance; a town historian; tries to sabotage the Pioneer Pageant to scare people away when he realized lead cannonballs were actually covering gold)

Other Character(s):

Swift Deer (Johnny Stag; first appearance; a Native American student, new to Smallville)
White Magic (first appearance; his father, also a medicine man; both are the last living members of the Eagle Tribe)
James Crane (first appearance; a town historian)
the mayor of Smallville (next in the second story in this issue)
citizens of Smallville

Location(s):

Smallville


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Second Story: "Clark Kent, Vandal" (6 Pages)

Credits:

StoryJerry Coleman
ArtJohn Sikela
EditingMort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

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

Supporting Character(s):

Lana Lang (last in the first story in this issue; next in Adventure Comics #235)

Other Character(s):

the mayor of Smallville (next in the first story in this issue)
citizens of Smallville

Location(s):

Smallville


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Third Story: "A Job for Super-Dog" (8 Pages)

Credits:

StoryOtto Binder
PencilsCurt Swan
InksGeorge Klein (?), Stan Kaye ()
EditingMort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Superboy (last in the second story in this issue; next in Adventure Comics #235)

Supporting Character(s):

Krypto (last in issue #51/2; next in Adventure Comics #239)

Villain(s):

two dog-nappers (first appearance of both)

Other Character(s):

King (first appearance; a dog)
a movie crew (first appearance of all)
Sir Rajah (first appearance; a dog)

Location(s):

United States of America
Smallville
the Pacific Ocean
somewhere in the Alps

Story Reprinted in:

Adventure Comics #330/2 (March 1954)


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