Cover: Curt Swan & George Klein

Superboy #103

Mar 1963 · DC · 0.12 USD

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“The Three Ages of Superboy! Part I: Land of the Pharaohs!”

A medieval tournament setting frames this 1963 adventure, where Superboy soars above a jousting ground while an armored Black Knight on horseback brandishes a Crimson Mace, confidently declaring he'll defeat the Boy of Steel. The cover promises a great three-part novel driven by Red Kryptonite, sending Superboy through the Land of the Pharaohs, the Time of King Arthur, and the Wild West of Jesse James. Curt Swan and George Klein bring it all to life with clean, dynamic energy that makes the time-hopping premise immediately irresistible.

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writer Edmond Hamilton · artist Curt Swan · inker George Klein · cover Curt Swan, George Klein

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writer Edmond Hamilton

artist Curt Swan

inker George Klein

cover pencils Curt Swan

cover inks George Klein

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In 1871 Missouri Superboy joins Doc. Langdon's medicine show while he searches for the red kryptonite, meantime foiling crimes by Jesse James. The James gang find the red kryptonite and make bullets to force Superboy to help them, but he is turned into a double of Jesse James, a fact he uses to corral the gang. But a posse chases "Jesse" (Superboy) until Krypto arrives. Superboy uses the red kryptonite to change Krypto to a horse so they can escape until their powers return and they go back to their own time.

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