Superboy #104
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeThe cover of this April 1963 DC issue sets up a wonderfully absurd situation: a confident young boy in green — identified as "Reginald" by his exasperated father — winds up to punch a seated Superboy while a woman looks on in alarm, declaring his intention to prove he's the strongest boy in Smallville. Curt Swan's pencils and George Klein's inks give the scene a lively, warm energy perfectly in tune with the era's charming Silver Age sensibility. And if that weren't enough, the issue also promises "The Untold Story of the Phantom Zone," with writing by Edmond Hamilton and art by George Papp making this a genuinely packed read.
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Jor-El invents the Phantom Zone Projector as a more humane way to punish criminals than sending them into space and successfully submits it into a Science Council competition. The disgruntled loser of the competition, Gra-Mo, takes over Krypton's robots to take his revenge, and ironically becomes the last criminal to be punished in the old way. Months later, after many convicts have been sent into the Phantom Zone, the prisoners try to take over Jor-El's mind with mental telepathy, so he blasts the Zone Projector into space with other forbidden weapons.
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