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[Silver]

Another "first" cover and another one from Ted. Look how white it is! They seemed to like stories about Superboys eyes, didn't they?

 

 

Edited June 8, 2017 by Silver

[SLR5]

20 minutes ago, Silver said:

Another "first" cover and another one from Ted. Look how white it is! They seemed to like stories about Superboys eyes, didn't they?

 

 

 

[SLR5]

Beautiful book, Dan..  Colors just pop.  Fun story to read, too.  I have a real beautiful copy as well.  It could be its twin, in fact.  Bought mine from Sparkle City back in the late 1970s at SDCC.

[Silver]

While his first appearance was way back in number 8, Superbaby didn't dhow up regularly until about this time period. Not my favorite stories overall. If I want to read about babies I pick up a copy of Sugar and Spike. I have a few of those.

 

[Silver]

By this time these types of stories, where someone temporary gets a super power, are rather common in all of the Superman books. I could probably do a whole thread on that.

 

[Silver]

I found this issue a little bit harder to locate than some of the others around the 70-80's.

also, the 70's have some of the best covers of the period for Superboy. 

Here is 73:

 

[Silver]

This is one of those awesome covers. Get a nice copy and the colors are unreal. Even if I didn't collect the series I would want a nice copy of this book

 

[tomo]

13 hours ago, Silver said:

He3 is another one of those books from Ted. A really nice copy of an incredibly cool cover. Look,at the colors on this book! Anytime you find a D.C. From this time period that looks this good, snatch it up, there are not many out there:

 

Hmmm...My copy of #67 also has what appears to be a see-through cover, although my scan makes it look less pronounced than it is in hand.

[tomo]

13 hours ago, Silver said:

Well, there is not much to really say about 68 that anyone doesn't know. This is the big one. My optinion this book is as important as Action 242.

I agree 100%, as both introduced iconic villains.  I think a case could be made that Bizarro is more iconic than Brainiac, or at least more well known to the uninitiated general populace.  Both came out within 3 months of each other, but boy-oh-boy are the guide prices worlds apart on these.

Maybe it's because this isn't the real "Bizarro #1" Bizarro, or that he's more of a comic figure and not as "serious" as Brainiac?  I wasn't around back then to know first hand, but I'm guessing he was popular enough as the Tales of the Bizarro World backups ran in Adventure Comics for a dozen-odd issues or so in the early 60's.

Edited June 8, 2017 by tomo
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[Dale Roberts]

On ‎6‎/‎5‎/‎2017 at 9:44 AM, Silver said:

Thank you Tomo, I will make sure to keep you in mind as I upgrade issues and look for homes for my undercopies!

I've got some new ones. Bring some bucks to SDCC.

 

[Silver]

Probably taking a short break for a couple of days, lots of Superboy ahead!

[1950's war comics]

After posting all these great Superboys you deserve a break , all your time and effort has been much appreciated 

[Silver]

Superboy 75. Another spanking cover. Pa Kent couldn't come up with another more effective type of punishment? What happened to the kryptonite cage? And what about the whole "taking you out behind the woodshed" Midwest approach? Or "go get my belt boy"... nope, bend over son, you're going get a whooping 

 

[Silver]

Well, we have a dog and a cat, what's the next animal we can make super? I guess it's a monkey. Technically though, since this is a Superbaby story he came before Krypto. Wonder what's next, a horse?

 

Edited June 10, 2017 by Silver

[Silver]

I need a new copy of this issue, I think the blacks on it would pop on a higher grade copy. Story wise they liked this whole Superboy needs a friend thing. They visited this theme many times finally culminating in Pete Ross. Well get to him later.

 

[Silver]

This wasn't the first ghost of Jor-el cover, remember way back in issue 20? Nice purple tones on this cover

 

[1950's war comics]

9 hours ago, Silver said:

I need a new copy of this issue, I think the blacks on it would pop on a higher grade copy. Story wise they liked this whole Superboy needs a friend thing. They visited this theme many times finally culminating in Pete Ross. Well get to him later.

 

Not sure if i have ever seen a superhero tennis cover before !!!

[Silver]

Another of the better covers from the late 70's. Some really awesome colors here. This is my upgraded copy of this book I got from SDCC a few years ago

 

[Silver]

Super playmate eh?

 

[Silver]

Superboy 80. Most of the stories were gimmicky, and the covers really demonstrate that. It's like "what if". What if Superboy was on a planet with no powers?