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Unofficial Superboy Index

SUPERBOY #83

Cover Date: September 1960
Cover Price: $.10
Publication Date: 1960-10-06

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Cover Credits:
Pencils: Curt Swan
Inks: Stan Kaye

Story: "The Dreams of Doom" (9 Pages)

Credits:

Story	Jerry Siegel
Art	George Papp
Editing	Mort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Superboy (last in Adventure Comics #275; next in the second story in this issue)

Supporting Character(s):

Jonathan Kent (last in Adventure Comics #274; next in the third story in this issue)

Martha Kent (last in Adventure Comics #274; next in the second story in this issue)

Villain(s):

Kryptonite Kid (first appearance; a Blorian convict; also in flashback; next in issue #99/3)

Kryptonite Dog (first appearance; also in flashback; a Blorian laboratory dog; next in issue #99/3)

Mister Mxyzptlk (last in issue #78/3; next in Adventure Comics #306)

Other Character(s):

Smallville High School students

Blorians (first appearance; an alien race; a prison guard and prisoners)

Location(s):

Space Sector 2814

Earth

Smallville

Unidentified Space Sector

Blor (first appearance; in flashback)

Story Reprinted in:

80 Page Giant Magazine #10/3 (May 1965)

Superboy Spectacular #1/2 (1980)

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Second Story: "The Old Maid of Smallville" (9 Pages)

Credits:

Story	Jerry Siegel
Art	Al Plastino
Editing	Mort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

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

Supporting Character(s):

Jonathan Kent

Martha Kent (in between the first and the third stories in this issue)

Other Character(s):

Edith Finch (first appearance; a teacher, ridiculed for being "an old maid")

Ed Hicks (first appearance; a rude student)

other students at Smallville High School

Grandma Smith (first appearance; rents a room to Miss Finch)

John Hale (first appearance; physical education teacher)

"Tom Ross" (first appearance; a robot created by Superboy)

Location(s):

Smallville

Comment(s):

This story starts on Tuesday February 9th, continuing to Monday February 15th.

Story Reprinted in:

Best of DC #15 (August 1981)

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Third Story: "The Invasion of Krypton" (8 Pages)

Credits:

Story	Otto Binder
Art	George Papp
Editing	Mort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Superboy (last in the second story in this issue; next in Adventure Comics #276; also in flashback as baby Kal-El; in between the flashbacks in issues #79/3 and #87/3)