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Superboy #172 (1971) · The Collector

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Superboy (1949)
#172

DC Comics#172

Superboy

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Superboy #172

The World of the Super-Ape! / Brotherly Hate!

Publisher: DC Comics
Cover date: March 1971
On sale: Jan 7, 1971
Cover price: $0.15
Pages: 36
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Key issue

1st appearance of Yango

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Credits

Writers: Frank Robbins, E. Nelson Bridwell
Pencillers: Bob Brown, George Tuska
Inkers: Murphy Anderson, George Tuska
Letterers: John Costanza, Joe Letterese

Sources

Grand Comics Database issue 24085

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Superboy meets Yango, a gorilla from Krypton, who speaks Kryptonian and possesses the same powers as Superboy. Yango was sent from Krypton to Earth in a parallel ship by noted Kryptonian anthropologist An-Kal, who seems to have also believed Jor-El's theory of Krypton exploding. Yango metes out justice to poachers and the random warlord and Superboy establishes himself as The Super-Ape's ally.

Cover

Neal Adams

Editor

Murray Boltinoff

Cover letters

Gaspar Saladino

Characters

Yango· 1st appearance
Cosmic Boy· Cameo
Jonathan Kent· Cameo
Legion of Super-Heroes [Lightning Lad
Light Lass
Lightning Lord
Martha Kent· Cameo
Professor An-Kal· Cameo
R. J. Brande· Cameo
Saturn Girl· Cameo
Superboy
Timber Wolf

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