Superboy #56

Published
October 1953
Page count
28
Cover price
6d [0-0-6 GBP]
Colour
Black & white
Size
Standard size
Interior paper
Newsprint
Cover stock
Glossy colour
Binding
Saddle-stitched
Format
Comic series
Branding
Colour Comics Pty Ltd
 
Colour Comics Pty Ltd

Credits

Editing
, editor

Issue contents Hide all

Show/hide Cover Untitled (Superboy) Cover, 1 page

Featuring

Feature
Superboy
Genre
Superhero

Credits

Art
Hart Amos, line art [signed as Amos]
Colours
, colourist
Show/hide 1. The Pied Piper of Smallville (Superboy) Comic story, 10 pages

Featuring

Feature
Superboy
Genre
Superhero
Characters
Lana Lang

Credits

Writing
Writer A, scripter (John Broome?)
Art
John Sikela, line art
Text
, letterer
Editing
Whitney Ellsworth, original editor [credited]
 
Mort Weisinger, original editor [attributed] (actual)

Reprint history

First print
United States
Superboy (DC, 1949 series) #27 (August-September 1953)
The Pied Piper of Smallville
Also printed
Australia
Superboy (Colour Comics, 1950 series) #56 ([September 1953])
The Pied Piper of Smallville
 
Australia
Colossal Comic (Colour Comics, 1958 series) #54 ([August 1970?])
The Pied Piper of Smallville

Synopsis

A clarinet playing bum seems to have hypnotized the kids of Smallville into following him into the most dangerous places.

Notes

writer id by Martin O'Hearn

Show/hide 2. The Red, White and Blue Arrow (Green Arrow) Comic story, 10 pages

Featuring

Feature
Green Arrow
Genre
Superhero
Characters
Green Arrow; Speedy; Red Arrow; White Arrow; Blue Arrow; Bronco Bates

Credits

Writing
Otto Binder, scripter
Art
George Papp, line art
Text
, letterer
Editing
Whitney Ellsworth, original editor [credited]
 
Jack Schiff, original editor [attributed] (actual)

Reprint history

First print
United States
Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #133 (October 1948)
The Red, White and Blue Arrow
Also printed
Australia
Superboy (Colour Comics, 1950 series) #56 ([September 1953])
The Red, White and Blue Arrow

Synopsis

Three archers contend for the right to replace Green Arrow.


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AusReprints ID

  • 58563

Entry created

  • 28/08/2022

Cover added

  • 28/08/2022

Last updated

  • 28/08/2022