Superboy Vol 1 106

Superboy Vol 1 #106

July, 1963

Cover Artists

Curt Swan

Publisher

DC Comics

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If we get out of this alive, it'll be a miracle!

-- Uncle Brainiac

Appearing in "The Great Superboy Hoax!"

Featured Characters:

• Pete Ross (Flashback and main story)
•  Superboy  (Flashback and main story)

Supporting Characters:

• Jonathan Kent (Flashback and main story)
• Krypto (Flashback and main story)
• Lana Lang
• Martha Kent (Flashback and main story)

Villains:

• Luthor (Mentioned)
• Phantom Zoners
• Superboy Revenge Squad (Appears in flashback and main story)

Other Characters:

• Chemistry Club
• Kryptonians (Appears in flashback and main story)
• Ross Family
• Superbaby (Appears in flashback and main story)

Locations:

• Krypton (Appears in flashback and main story)
• Phantom Zone (Mentioned)
• Planetoid
• Smallville

• Kent Backyard
• Kent General Store
• Kent House
• Smallville High School
• Smallville Orphanage
• Smallville Woods

Items:

• Clark Kent Robot
• Green Kryptonite
• Superboy Robots (Flashback and main story)
• Transmutation Ray
• Virus X (Flashback and main story)

Vehicles:

• Capsule/Space-Bubble
• Kent Station Wagon
  
  

Synopsis for "The Great Superboy Hoax!"

To see if Pete Ross is qualified to take over for him if he should unexpectedly perish, Superboy fakes his death and arranges for Pete to gain temporary super-powers and take his identity as the second Superboy.

Appearing in "The Lair of Brainiac!"

Featured Characters:

• Superbaby (First appearance as Super-Giant) (Appears in flashback and main story)
•  Superboy 

Supporting Characters:

• Jonathan Kent (Flashback and main story)
• Kryptonians (Appears in flashback and main story)

• Jor-El (Appears in flashback and main story)
• Krypto (Appears in flashback and main story)
• Lara (Appears in flashback and main story)

• Martha Kent

Villains:

• Brainiac (First appearance as Uncle Brainiac) (Appears in flashback and main story)

• Koko (Appears in flashback and main story)
• Renlo (Appears in flashback and main story)
• Tagor (Appears in flashback and main story)

Other Characters:

• Bryakans (Dies in flashback)

Locations:

• Bryak (Appears in flashback and main story)
• Earth (Flashback and main story)

• Smallville (Flashback and main story)

• Bowling Alley (Appears in flashback and main story)
• Kent Farm

• Krypton (Appears in flashback and main story)

• Kryptonopolis (Appears in flashback and main story)

• Rao (Appears in flashback and main story)

Items:

• 21 Y-Ronatort/21 Y-Runatort (Mentioned)
• Flash-Gun (Appears in flashback and main story)
• Growth Ray-Gun (Appears in flashback and main story)

• Enlarging Ray (Appears in flashback and main story)

• Hyper-Z-Bombs (Appears in flashback and main story)
• Mind-Prober

• Mind-Prober Ray

• My Life on Krypton
• Shrinking Ray-Gun (Appears in flashback and main story)

• Shrinking Ray (Appears in flashback and main story)

• Space-Warp (Appears in flashback and main story)
• Uroxium (Appears in flashback and main story)

Vehicles:

• Flying Saucer (Mentioned)
• Space-Ships (Appears in flashback and main story)
  
  

Synopsis for "The Lair of Brainiac!"

Superboy once again uses his mind-prober ray and Total Recall power to remember an adventure during his babyhood as Kal-El of Krypton. He recalls how the space villain Brainiac kidnapped him, intending to ransom him to Jor-El for an invention of the latter’s. But Brainiac’s ship teleports to a yellow solar system, where Kal-El gains super-powers and causes such havoc that Brainiac and his henchmen gladly restore him to his home, without Jor-El ever knowing he was gone.

Notes

• "The Lair of Brainiac!" was reprinted in Superman in the Sixties.
  

Trivia

• No trivia.

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• Cover gallery for the Superboy series

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Recommended Reading

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