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Issue: Superboy #89
Publication Date: June 1961
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Issues: #89 of 230 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: Superman DC National ComicsView Brand Images3
Indicia Publisher: National Comics Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 04/06/1961
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 14 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen #53 and copyright registration.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S.; standard Silver Age U.S.; standard Modern Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched; squarebound (#129, 138, 147, 156, 165, 185, 202, 205, 208)
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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Superboy's Big Brother!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Writer(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superboy; Mon-El
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagShowcase Presents: Legion of Super-Heroes #1 published June 2007
as Superboy #89 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Test Your Talent

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Editor(s): ?
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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Superboy's Big Brother! Part I

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superboy [Kal-El]; Mon-El [also as Bob Cobb]; Martha Kent; Jonathan Kent; Krypto (cameo); Jor-El (flashback); Lara (flashback)
Synopsis: When a space ship crashes outside Smallville, Superboy finds an amnesiac, super-powered youth who might be his older brother. He christens him Mon-El and sets him up with a secret identity, but he soon finds evidence that Mon-El is not, in fact, Kryptonian.
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In Content Item: FlagSuperboy #129 published May 1966
as Part I: Superboy's Big Brother! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagAdventure Comics #494 [Direct Sales] published December 1982
as Part I: Superboy's Big Brother! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Legion of Super-Heroes Archives #1 [1st Printing] published January 1991
as Superboy's Big Brother! [Superboy's Big Brother! Part 1] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagShowcase Presents: Legion of Super-Heroes #1 published June 2007
as Superboy's Big Brother! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSuperman: Tales from the Phantom Zone #[nn] published August 2009
as Part I... Superboy's Big Brother [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
Disclose Notes: 1st appearance of Mon-El. Story reworked from "Superman's Big Brother" in Superman (DC, 1939 series) #80 (January-February 1953).
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[untitled]

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First Line: Be my guest at the Clyde Beatty & Cole Bros. 3-ring circus...
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Pages: 1
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[untitled]

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Genres: humorous
First Line: Here's a customer, Ollie. Take care of him!
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Pages: 0.5
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[untitled]

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Feature(s): Adventure Comics; Tales of the Bizarrro World
First Line: Featured in the next issue of Adventure Comics...
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Pages: 0.5
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[Superboy's Big Brother! Part II] The Secret of Mon-El!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superboy; Mon-El [Bob Cobb] (origin); Martha Kent; Jonathan Kent; Lana Lang; Miss Joyce; King Mycerinua; Rhodopis; Jor-El (flashback); Lara (flashback); unnamed Phantom Zone prisoner (flashback)
Synopsis: Trying to prove Mon-El isn't actually Kryptonian, Superboy accidentally exposes him to lead, which both poisons him and returns his memory. Mon-El remembers that he is a space explorer from Daxam, who visited Krypton, meeting Jor-El and Lara, before arriving on Earth. To save his life, Superboy sends Mon-El into the Phantom Zone until he can cure him of his lead poisoning.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagSuperboy #129 published May 1966
as Part 2: The Secret of Mon-El! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagAdventure Comics #494 [Direct Sales] published December 1982
as Part 2: The Secret of Mon-El! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Legion of Super-Heroes Archives #1 [1st Printing] published January 1991
as The Secret of Mon-El! [Superboy's Big Brother! Part 2] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagShowcase Presents: Legion of Super-Heroes #1 published June 2007
as The Secret of Mon-El! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSuperman: Tales from the Phantom Zone #[nn] published August 2009
as [Part II...] The Secret of Mon-El! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ? (logo illustration)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Superboy; Krypto
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Letters from: Alan Rapoport, Joe Reeves, Paul W. DeFazio, Carole Rokaw, Bill Hoermann, Eddie Link, Norm Conley, and Harry Meskin.
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[untitled]

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Genres: humorous
First Line: I hope this moose horn works!
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Pages: 0.67
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Coming... Super-Attractions!

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Feature(s): Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen; Adventure Comics; Action Comics
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Pages: 0.33
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The Super-Cop of Smallville!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superboy [Clark Kent]; Chief Parker
Synopsis: The entire Smallville police force is quarantined so Superboy has to take their place.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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Bicycle Windshield

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Sold by Honor House Prod. Corp.
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[untitled]

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First Line: Boys! Girls! Ladies! Men! Win a beautiful new photo ring...
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Sold by Wilson Chemical Co.
Inside back cover.
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204 Revolutionary War Soldiers

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Letterer(s): typeset
Editor(s): ?
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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