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Tomorrow I'll prove Pete Ross is really Superboy!
- -- Ultra Boy
Appearing in "The Super-Student of Swankhurst Academy"Edit
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Villains:
- Silk Pomeroy
Other Characters:
- Mark Denley
- Otto Binker
Locations:
- Swankhurst Academy
Items:
- None
Vehicles:
- None
Synopsis for "The Super-Student of Swankhurst Academy"Edit
When con-man “Silk” Pomeroy opens the Swankhurst Academy, he and his confederate use it as a way of getting inside information on his wealthy pupils’ parents for robberies, until Superboy enrolls and brings them both to justice.
Appearing in "The Boy With Ultra-Powers!"Edit
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Ultra Boy (First appearance)
- Marla Latham (First appearance)
- Pete Ross
- Lana Lang
Other Characters:
- Jonathan Kent
- Martha Kent (Cameo)
- Krypto
- Donald Mace
- E.W. Lemley
Locations:
Items:
- None
Vehicles:
Synopsis for "The Boy With Ultra-Powers!"Edit
A super-powered young man named Ultra-Boy has arrived in Smallville with his guide Marla Latham, for the purpose of trying to learn the secret identity of Superboy. Mingling in with the youth of Smallville, Ultra-Boy attempts to learn Superboy's secret identity, at first asking Superboy's confidant Pete Ross. This cause Pete to worry about accidentally revealing the fact that he knows Superboy's secret identity.
Meanwhile, both Ultra-Boy and Superboy find out that they are really costumed super-heroes when they both scan each other with their x-ray visions and see their costumes under each other. When Pete is trapped in the Smallville bank's vault, Ultra-Boy and Superboy arrive to save him. However, when Superboy's x-ray vision is unable to peer into the workings of the lead based vault door, Ultra-Boy is able to do so because his vision does not have the same limitation.
With Pete Ross freed, Ultra-Boy reveals to Superboy his purpose for trying to learn Superboy's identity: That he's really an alien from the 30th Century, and that his reward for learning Superboy's identity would be membership in the Legion of Super-Heroes. With his mission a success Ultra-Boy returns to the future with Marla and bids farewell to Superboy and Pete.
NotesEdit
- "The Boy With Ultra-Powers!" is reprinted in Superboy (Volume 1) #147, Adventure Comics #497 and Legion of Super-Heroes Archives Vol. 1 and Showcase Presents: Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 1 .
- Superboy appeared last in Adventure Comics #297. He appears next in Adventure Comics #298.
- First appearance of future Legionnaire Ultra Boy. Ultra Boy makes a chronologically earlier appearance in Adventure Comics #316. His next actual appearance is in Superboy #100.
TriviaEdit
- Swankhurst Academy student Otto Binker is likely named for writer Otto Binder.
See Also
Recommended ReadingEdit
- Adventure Comics (Volume 1)
- Adventure Comics (Volume 2)
- Legion of Super-Heroes (Volume 1)
- Superboy (Volume 1)
- Superboy (Volume 2)
- Superboy (Volume 3)
- Superboy (Volume 4)
- Superboy (Volume 5)
- Superboy (Volume 6)
- Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes (Volume 1)
- Superboy and the Ravers
- Young Justice
- Teen Titans (Volume 3)
- Teen Titans (Volume 4)
- Adventure Comics (Volume 1)
- Adventure Comics (Volume 2)
- Final Crisis: Legion of 3 Worlds
- Legion Lost (Volume 1)
- Legion Lost (Volume 2)
- Legion of Super-Heroes (Volume 1)
- Legion of Super-Heroes (Volume 2)
- Legion of Super-Heroes (Volume 3)
- Legion of Super-Heroes (Volume 4)
- Legion of Super-Heroes (Volume 5)
- Legion of Super-Heroes (Volume 6)
- Legion of Super-Heroes (Volume 7)
- Legion Worlds (Volume 1)
- Legionnaires (Volume 1)
- Superboy (Volume 1)
- Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes
- Supergirl and the Legion of Super-Heroes
- The Legion (Volume 1)
Links and ReferencesEdit
- Read "The Boy with Ultra-Powers!" online
- Superboy at Wikipedia.org
- Superboy at Supermanica
- Superboy at Toonopedia
- Legion of Super-Heroes at Wikipedia.org
- Legion of Super-Heroes Wiki
- Legion of Super-Heroes Online Companion
- Legion of Super-Heroes Reference File
- Major Spoiler's Hero History Collection
- Legion of Super-Heroes Clubhouse
- Legion of Super-Heroes index at Cosmic Teams
- Legion of Super-Heroes at TV Tropes
- Legion of Super-Links
- Comics
- Week 02, 2021
- 1962
- 1962, July
- Silver-Age
- Superboy Vol 1
- DC Comics
- Curt Swan/Cover Artist
- George Klein/Cover Artist
- Al Plastino/Penciler
- Al Plastino/Inker
- Mort Weisinger/Editor
- Jerry Siegel/Writer
- Curt Swan/Penciler
- George Klein/Inker
- Milt Snapinn/Letterer
- Jo Nah (Pre-Zero Hour)/Quotes
- Kal-El (Earth-One)/Appearances
- Jonathan Kent (Earth-One)/Appearances
- Legion of Super-Heroes (Pre-Zero Hour)/Appearances
- Jo Nah (Pre-Zero Hour)/Appearances
- Marla Latham (Pre-Zero Hour)/Appearances
- Peter Ross (Earth-One)/Appearances
- Lana Lang (Earth-One)/Appearances
- Martha Clark (Earth-One)/Appearances
- Krypto (Earth-One)/Appearances
- Smallville, Kansas/Appearances
- Time Bubble/Appearances
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