Cover: Tom Grummett & Karl Kesel
Superboy #5
📊 ~33,677 copies sold its debut month
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Tom Grummett and Karl Kesel deliver a visceral cover for this June 1994 issue, showing a battered Superboy — his Superman logo torn and bloodied, his face bruised — fighting through slashing white energy blades against a crumbling dark background. The title "Live by the Sword... Die by the Sword" sets a grim tone that matches every cut and scorch mark on display. With Kesel writing and Grummett on interior art alongside inker Doug Hazlewood, this is mid-'90s DC storytelling firing on all cylinders.
writer Karl Kesel · artist Tom Grummett · inker Doug Hazlewood · colorist Tom McCraw · letterer Richard Starkings · cover Tom Grummett, Karl Kesel
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Raw (NM) $31
CGC 9.6 · 2 in census $79*
CGC 9.4 none in existence
CGC 9.2 none in existence
CGC 9.0 none in existence
CGC 8.5 · 1 in census $45*
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VF/NM $2.49 Newsstand $7.89 Signed $19 NM $24 👋 Superboy 5 1994 $5 minimum purchase required $1 Superboy The Man Of Tomorrow #5 (Of 6) Cover A Jahnoy Lindsay $3.99 DC Comic: SuperBoy, Issue 5 $4.99 SUPERBOY: THE MAN OF TOMORROW #5B $4.99
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Full credits
writer Karl Kesel
artist Tom Grummett
inker Doug Hazlewood
colorist Tom McCraw
letterer Richard Starkings
cover pencils Tom Grummett
cover inks Karl Kesel
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Reprinted in Superboy #8 (1995), Superboy #1 (2018)
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