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80-Page Giant Vol 1 10

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"The Journey of the Second Superboy!": This story is reprinted from Adventure Comics #205.

80-Page Giant #10 is an issue of the series 80-Page Giant (Volume 1) with a cover date of May, 1965. It was published on March 11, 1965.

Synopsis for "The Journey of the Second Superboy!"

This story is reprinted from Adventure Comics #205.

The tyrannical natives of Titan send Kral, a super-powered boy, to Earth to secretly gauge that planet's prospect as another world for conquest. But he is shown such kindness by Superboy and the Kents that he changes his mind and goes along with a plan of Superboy's to convince the Titanians that all Earthmen are as powerful as Kryptonians. Kral leaves Earth for Titan, telling Superboy he will work on his world to teach his people how to live in friendship.

Appearing in "The Journey of the Second Superboy!"

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  • Kral (Single appearance)

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  • Kral's Space Ship


Synopsis for "The Imposter from the Year 2958"

This story is reprinted from Adventure Comics #250.

Superboy is notified by a Scotland Yard inspector from 2958 A.D. that a criminal known as Lorac-K7 has come back to his time to obtain cobalt to use in a cobalt bomb, but he is unable to reveal Lorac's cover identity. Accordingly, Superboy has to figure out which citizen of Smallville has been abducted and impersonated by the criminal from the future.

Appearing in "The Imposter from the Year 2958"

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  • Lorac-K7 (Single appearance) (a criminal from the future)

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  • Edaw-8 (Single appearance) (a lawman from the future)
  • Brook (Single appearance) (Mayor of Smallville)
  • H.M. Sands (Single appearance) (principal of Smallville High School)
  • Mr. Bemis (Single appearance) (teacher at Smallville High School)
  • Mr. Carr (Single appearance) (superintendant at the Steel Mill)

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Synopsis for "The Dreams of Doom!"

This story is reprinted from Superboy #83.

When a youthful criminal and his dog gain the powers of Green Kryptonite radiation from passing through a green space-cloud, they come to Earth and endanger Superboy and Krypto with their radiation and their abilities to transform anything they touch into Kryptonite. But Mr. Mxyzptlk appears and, rather than see his old enemies destroyed by someone else, teleports the Kryptonite Kid and Kryptonite Dog away, restores the objects turned into Kryptonite to their former natures, and then vanishes.

Appearing in "The Dreams of Doom!"

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  • Blorians (Flashback only)

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  • Test-Satellite

Synopsis for "How Luthor Met Superboy!"

This story is reprinted from Adventure Comics #271.

Superboy meets and befriends Lex Luthor, a brown-haired teenage scientist who is his biggest fan, after Luthor saves him from a Kryptonite meteor. The Boy of Steel creates a modern laboratory for Luthor, in which the latter creates a simple form of protoplasmic life and uses it to make an antidote for Kryptonite. But, when Luthor accidentally starts a fire, Superboy comes to the rescue, blowing out the blaze. The blast of air knocks an acid bottle into the bottle containing the life-form, destroying it and creating a gas which causes all of Lex's hair to fall out. Enraged at the loss of the life-form, the irreplaceable formula for its creation, and his hair, Luthor vows vengeance against Superboy. He traps Superboy with a Kryptonite meteorite, but the hero survives by inhaling the last few drops of Luthor's antidote. Superboy declares that they are even now, and he owes Luthor nothing, though he refuses to take him to jail and tells Luthor to straighten out. Luthor vows that he will someday become more famous than Superboy, and will destroy him.

Appearing in "How Luthor Met Superboy!"

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  • Krypto
  • Mayor of Smallville
  • Mr. Wade (Single appearance)

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Synopsis for "The Helpless Hero!"

This story is reprinted from Adventure Comics #264.

Rather than become a meteor-watcher like his father, alien youth Zall-Dix comes to Earth, distorting Superboy's powers in hopes of blackmailing him into exchanging bodies via mental-transfer ray. He is thwarted when he accidentally exchanges bodies with Pa Kent who threatens to abandon Earth and leave Zall-Dix in the body of an aging human. A chastened Zall-Dix pledges to leave Earth and abandon his juvenile delinquency.

Appearing in "The Helpless Hero!"

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  • Zall-Dix (Single appearance)

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  • None

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  • Alien Craft

Synopsis for "The Splitting of Superboy!"

This story is reprinted from Adventure Comics #255.

A Martian splits Superboy into two beings with a chunk of Red Kryptonite. One of the resultant boys is an evil, non-powered Clark Kent with amnesia, who makes trouble for Superboy until he dies in an explosion while trying to destroy Superboy.

Appearing in "The Splitting of Superboy!"

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  • None

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  • Kozz (Single appearance)
  • Chief Red Stag (Single appearance)
  • Chuck Ward (Single appearance)
  • John Todd (Single appearance)
  • Dick Allbright (Single appearance)

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