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Penciller: Wayne Boring Inker: Stan Kaye |
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Comic Title: Superboy #1
Publisher: DC
(National Comics Publications, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: Mar/Apr 1949
On Sale Date:
January 7, 1949 Newsstand Date January 8, 1949
Source: House Ad, Adventure Comics #137, Page 20
Copyright Date January 5, 1949
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1949
Until 1958 DC did not report actual on sale dates to the copyright office
The publication dates listed in LoC records are NOT release dates.
Newsstand Date January 7, 1949
Source: Newsdealer Magazine, V3 #11
Frequency: Bi-monthly
Cover Price: $0.10
Page Count: 48
Editor: Jack Schiff
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Title: "The Man Who Could See Tomorrow"
Pages: 12
Feature(s):
Superboy (of Earth-1)
Writer: France E. Herron
Penciller: John Sikela
Inker: Ed Dobrotka
Reprinted In:
Millennium Edition:Superboy 1 (#62) (2001)
Feature Character(s)
- Superboy (in flashback; last appearance in Adventure Comics #137; next appearance in Superboy #1)
Villain(s)
- Mayor Haskins (appears in flashback; no further appearances)
- A gang of robbers (no further appearances)
Guest Appearance(s)
- Superman (last appearance in Superman #46; next appearance in Action Comics #158)
- Lois Lane (last appearance in Superman #46; next appearance in Action Comics #158)
Other Character(s)
- Brandar (a fortune teller; dies in flashback; no further appearances)
- Margo Griffiths (becomes Margo Vaughn in this story; a nurse; no further appearances)
- Frank Vaughn (a doctor; no further appearances)
- Dr. Stanton and a wounded policeman (no further appearances)
Comments:
The majority of this story is told in flashback, as Superman remembers his encounter with Brandar when he was Superboy.
Clark Kent's former classmate Margo Griffiths turns 21 in this story. Clark is probably slightly older since he is already working at the Daily Planet.
Synopsis:
Superman rushes a wounded policeman to the hospital. A nurse at the hospital, Margo Griffiths, is a former classmate of Clark Kent. Superman remembers when he was Superboy that a fortune teller predicted Margo would cease to exist on her 21st birthday. The fortune teller's predictions were made using the Eye of Choc-Tuk and proved to be correct every time.
Margo explains to Superman that her boyfriend Frank Vaughn has been kidnapped in an ambulance. Superman chases down the crooks and rescues Vaughn. Margo then marries Frank, taking the name Vaughn, so Brandar's prediction does indeed come true.
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