Issue Description

The night before he and Lana Lang leave for their freshman term at Shuster University in Seigel Florida, Clark Kent saves his best friend Pete Ross one more time. They're at a bonfire at Lake Wylie State Park. Pete and a girl named Becky are arguing, and soon they are drag racing. Pete loses control of his car and almost goes over a cliff into the lake. Dropped off at home afterward, Clark gets some sage advice from Pa Kent.

The Kents see Clark and Lana off at the bus terminal and the two are on their way. Shuster University campus is a huge difference from Smallville, Kansas.

TJ White is dropped off by his father, who turns out to be Clark's idol.

As Clark, Lana and TJ get settled in, starnge things are happening in the research lab.

Superboy

Publisher

DC Comics

Volume Description

Superboy (The Comic Book), later renamed The Adventures of Superboy is the companion comic to the UPN series developed by Ilya and Alexander Salkind to follow their four Superman films. The series premiered October 8th, 1988. After John Byrne's The Man of Steel retconned Superman's career in Smallville as a boy out of the DCU Continuity.  
 
This is Shuster University, in Seigel, Florida, student Clark Kent. Along with Lana Lang and T.J. White. TJ was later replaced with Andy McAllister. The series would feature some of the first live-action appearances of such classic rogues as Metallo and Mxyzptlk.   
 
This book debuted February 1990, the same month as Second Season episodes Run, Dracula, Run; Brimstone; Abandon Earth and Escape To Earth. Seasons Three and Four shifted from Shuster University in Seigel, Florida to the Bureau of Extra-Normal Matters in Capital City, Florida. The reason for the Florida setting is the series was filmed at Disney/MGM, then Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida. The series ended with a final episode aired May 17, 1992. Time-Warner took control of Superboy back from the Salkinds. To date, only the John Haymes Newton, first season of the series has been released on DVD. The series was followed by Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, and later Smallville. This title would only survive two years and twenty-two issues, to February of 1992.      

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