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Superboy (1949) - #68
DC Comics

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Editor(s):
Whitney Ellsworth
Mort Weisinger

Cover Artist(s):
Stan Kaye
Curt Douglas Swan

Rating (out of 10):
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Cover Date: October 1958
Cover Price: US $0.10

Issue Tagline: None.

Format: Color; Standard Comic Issue; 36 pages

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Letters Column: Smallville Mailsack

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Reprinted/Collected in:
DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest (1980) #15
The Greatest Superman Stories Ever Told (1987) HC vol. 01
The Greatest Superman Stories Ever Told (1987) TPB vol. 01
Superman (1939) Annual 02

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Weisinger was the actual editor of the issue, but Ellsworth got the credit.

This is the first issue of Superboy to have a letter column, entitled "Smallville Mailsack".

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"The Boy of Steel Versus the Thing of Steel" - Edit this story

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Writer(s):
Otto Oscar Binder - 'Eando Binder'

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George Papp

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George Papp

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Bizarro (DC)(Earth-1 - Pre Crisis)(01 - Superboy)

Professor Dalton

Martha 'Ma' Kent (01 - Earth-1)
Melissa

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Notes:
This is definitely the first appearance of Bizarro, in terms of its availability to readers. However, Bizarro also appeared in the October 1958 daily newspaper strip, and it may have been written first. We'll probably never know the truth of the matter, though.

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Writer(s):
Henry Boltinoff

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Henry Boltinoff

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Writer(s):
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Henry Boltinoff

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