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Issue: Superboy Spectacular #1
Publication Date: January 1980
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Issues: #1 of 1 Issue (2 Printings)
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Is Variant Variant: Direct
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Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: DC [bullet]View Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 12/04/1979
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $1.00 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
13 (9 stories, 1 cover) from base issue
Editor(s): Joe Orlando (managing editor); Julius Schwartz (editor); Elizabeth Mattheos (editor)
Disclose Notes: This was specially commissioned by a school system and distributed exclusively through comic shops as DC's first direct sales only experiment.

On-sale date from Comic Reader #175.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: one-shot; giveaway (free version)
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Genres: superhero
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The Story of Superboy

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: superhero
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Disclose Notes: On the inside front and inside back cover.
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The Origin of Superboy's Super-Costume!

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First Line: To perform his amazing feats, Superboy must often fly through fire, or smother explosions, or get splashed by corrosive chemincals!
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Pages: 8
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The Dreams of Doom!

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Genres: superhero
First Line: Dynamic Superboy and his superdog Krypto usually overcome all foes, no matter how mighty, through the use of their astounding super-powers!
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Pages: 9
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Map of Krypton

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Life on Krypton!

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First Line: Presenting -- an untold series of stories about Krypton, Superboy's native world, where he lived as a baby!
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Pages: 10
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The One-Man Team!

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Genres: superhero
First Line: W-where is he?
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Pages: 9
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Kryptonite in Four Colors!

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Character(s): Superboy [Clark Kent]
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The Three Secret Identities of Superboy

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First Line: I have x-ray vision!
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Superboy's Secret Hideaways

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Feature(s): The Superboy Legend
First Line: Hi, fans!
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The Man Who Destroyed Krypton

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First Line: The bizarre super-weapon hung in the sky over earth -- a threat to the planet the Superboy from Krypton had adopted as his foster-world!
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The Puzzle of the Disappearing Pitcher!

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First Line: A star high-school athlete vanishes from a moving bus -- clearly a case for Superboy!
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Best Wishes, Superboy and Friends!

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Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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