Comic Title: Superboy Spectacular #1
Publisher: DC (DC Comics Inc.)
Address: 75 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY
Cover Date: 1980
On Sale Date: December 6, 1979 Newsstand Date December 6, 1979
Source: Comics Journal, #51

Newsstand Date December 4, 1979
Source: Comic Reader, #175

Copyright Date November 20, 1979
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1979
May be a shipping date instead of a sale date

Cover Price: $1.00
Page Count: 64
Editor: Julius Schwartz

Notes:
1st Direct Sales only DC comic.
Also distributed through school systems.

Title: "The Man Who Destroyed Krypton"
Pages: 8

Feature(s):
Superboy (of Earth-1)

Writer: Bill Finger
Artist: George Papp

Reprinted From:
Superboy #67 (1958)

Feature Character(s)

• Superboy (last appearance in Superboy #67; next appearance in Adventure Comics #252)

Supporting Character(s)

• Jonathan Kent (last appearance in Superboy #67; next appearance in Adventure Comics #252)
• Martha Kent (last appearance in Superboy #67; next appearance in Adventure Comics #252)
• Lana Lang (last appearance in Superboy #67; next appearance in Adventure Comics #252)
• Jor-El (in flashback; last appearance in Adventure Comics #243; next appearance in Action Comics #246)

Villain(s)

• Klax-Ar (a Kryptonian exile; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Superboy is approached by a Kryptonian exile, Klax-Ar. Klax-Ar was exiled for his evil ways and claims to have been responsible for the destruction of the planet. He used a device which created Atron-rays. The rays destroyed the planet.

Klax-Ar uses another such device to imperil the Earth. Superboy is unable to stop the device. He conceeds to Klax-Ar’s demand to join the villain in space, in exchange for disarming the device.

Once in space however, Superboy is revealed to be a robot. He tricked Klax-Ar when he realized that Klax-Ar’s super-strength was gone. The villain had not been responsible for the destruction of his home planet, but the Atron-rays had removed his powers. Klax-Ar continues his exile aboard his ship with the Superboy robot.