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The Best of DC Vol 1 7

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"Superboy Meets the Young Green Arrow!": This story is reprinted from Adventure Comics #258.

The Best of DC #7 is an issue of the series The Best of DC (Volume 1) with a cover date of October, 1980. It was published on June 10, 1980.

Synopsis for "Superboy Meets the Young Green Arrow!"

This story is reprinted from Adventure Comics #258.

While tinkering with his time monitor, Superboy happens upon viewing an event in the future about the crime fighter named the Green Arrow, and learns his true identity of Oliver Queen. Coincidentally, the next day at school, the young Oliver Queen becomes a student in Clark Kent's class.

Hoping to steer young Oliver towards his destiny, he suggests that the lad dress up as Robin Hood for the annual Smallville history pageant. When the event is used by criminals as a means of smuggling stolen gold out of Smallville, Superboy tries to get Oliver to help him with trick arrows, however the young boy is not very adept at shooting a bow.

Superboy must save the day, and eventually learns that Mr. Brand, a rancher is involved in the gold smuggling by having the gold turned into horse shoes until they could be shipped out. Superboy ultimately foils this plan and Mr. Brand is arrested. Afterwards, Oliver returns the Robin Hood costume back to Clark Kent, telling him that he'll never be a good archer, little knowing what Clark knows about Oliver's future.

Appearing in "Superboy Meets the Young Green Arrow!"

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  • Jim Brand (Single appearance)

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  • Lana Lang
  • Tom Hawkes (Single appearance)
  • Fred Winters (Single appearance)
  • Will Bronson (Single appearance)

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Synopsis for "The Super-Clown of Smallville!"

This story is reprinted from Superboy #62.

Superboy goes undercover as Alvin Wilson in order to ferret a gang of bank robbers out to kill the real Alvin Wilson.

Appearing in "The Super-Clown of Smallville!"

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  • Museum looters

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  • Alvin Wilson (First appearance)
  • Hank (Single appearance)
  • Miss Evans (Single appearance)
  • Tod Wilson (Single appearance)

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Synopsis for "Dark Strangler of the Seas!"

This story is reprinted from Superboy #171.

Aquaboy's life is endangered by an oil spill. Helpful dolphins carry him to Superboy, who saves his life and helps him go after an irresponsibly polluting oil company.

Appearing in "Dark Strangler of the Seas!"

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  • Trans-East Oil Co.
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Synopsis for "The Millionaire of Smallville!"

This story is reprinted from Superboy #119.

When Clark Kent's rich uncle Kendall Kent suffers a shock and believes he has adopted Clark, the Boy of Steel has to play along with him or see his uncle suffer mental imbalance.

Appearing in "The Millionaire of Smallville!"

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  • Chauffeur
  • Dr. Saunders
  • Fire Department
  • Simkins

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  • Clothing Compression Spray

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Synopsis for "Superboy Meets Lois Lane!"

This story is reprinted from Adventure Comics #261.

Lois Lane joins Lana Lang at a girls' summer camp in hopes of meeting Superboy, which she does. While there, she does her best to interfere in Lana's attempts to uncover Superboy's secret identity.

Appearing in "Superboy Meets Lois Lane!"

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  • Gladys Blake (Single appearance)
  • Joan Todd (Single appearance)
  • Counselor Betty Ames (Single appearance)

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Synopsis for "Plague from the Past!"

This story is reprinted from Superboy #177.

When a plague from a long-unopened pharaoh's coffin unleashes a terrible plague on Smallville, Superboy employs a statue of Anubis to send himself back in time and undo the coffin-opening.

Appearing in "Plague from the Past!"

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Synopsis for "Lex Luthor, Imp!"

This story is reprinted from Superboy #131.

Mister Mxyzptlk returns to Earth to plague Superboy. Lex Luthor seizes the opportunity and builds a machine to siphon off Mxyzptlk's powers and give them to himself. Angry that he was upstaged, Mxyzptlk starts a battle with Luthor with Superboy caught in the middle.

Superboy tricks Mxyzptlk into saying his name backwards, sending the imp home to the Fifth Dimension. Luthor retains his powers though. Superboy tries the same trick on Lex, but even when he says his name backwards, Lex's powers don't disappear. Superboy then examines the machine that gave Lex his power. After completing his analysis, Superboy realizes that since the secret of Luthor's power was first written in machine code; Lex must be made to recite his name backwards in that same code.

Appearing in "Lex Luthor, Imp!"

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  • Luthor's Analyzer Ray
  • Luthor's Computer

Synopsis for "The Kryptonite Kid!"

This story is reprinted from Superboy #99.

The Kryptonite Kid and his dog are released from their 5th Dimensional jail, come after Superboy, and have him dead to rights, but agree to spare his life if he will let them kill Krypto. He appears to agree, but instead has Krypto lead them through the crimson cosmic cloud that turns Green Kryptonite into Red K. The Kryptonite Kid and his dog radiate Red Kryptonite wavelengths now, and are reformed. After shaking hands with Superboy, the Kid returns with his dog to space. But Superboy knows that the Red K radiations will wear off in time.

Appearing in "The Kryptonite Kid!"

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Synopsis for "Superboy Meets Supergirl!"

This story is reprinted from Superboy #80.

Superman and Supergirl are out enjoying the winter weather by building a giant snowman, as they are doing so, Superman comments about how he never had a super-powered friend to play with when he was a young man living in Smallville. Taking this to heart, Supergirl travels through the time barrier into the past and meets Superboy in Smallville. After introducing herself to him, and explaining her origins the two hit it off and enjoy activities together.

Using the universe as their playground, the two super youths play "super" versions of games that normal humans would find impossible, like playing darts using each others bodies as targets, playing leap frog over meteors. When they spot an alien space ships about to attack the Earth with death rays at the Earth. The two heroes use their super-powers to destroy the alien ships.

After saving the day, Supergirl realizes that Superboy's foreknowledge of her arrival in the future might cause this fact slip out and ruin his future selves intent of having Supergirl as a secret weapon. Agreeing that this may cause a problem, Superboy flies to the planet Albo which has plants that cause people to lose their recent memories. Supergirl returns to her own time, and Superboy returns home wondering what it would be like to have a super-playmate, with no memory that he actually had one for a whole week.

Appearing in "Superboy Meets Supergirl!"

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