Issue Description

Cover by Curt Swan and George Klein."The Insect Queen of Smallville!" (Superboy, Lana Lang, Insect Queen, Mrs. Lang / written by Otto Binder, penciled and inked by George Papp. Reprinted in The Superman Family #167, The Best of DC #67 & The Legion of Super-Heroes Archives #4. Lana Lang helps an alien from being trapped under a tree and in gratitude gives her a ring that gives her the power of insects. She becomes the Insect Queen. She becomes Insect Queen next in issue Superboy #127."Shorty" gag strip by Henry Boltinoff."Are You a Litter-Bug?" public service message by Jack Schiff and Henry Boltinoff."Superbaby's First Fight!" "Untold Tale of Superbaby" (Super Baby, Ma and Pa Kent, Professor Potter, Kryptonite / written by Otto Binder, penciled and inked by George Papp. Superbaby knocks the boxing champ out (because he was a meanie and knocked the other guy out). What will the crowd think of that?"The Toughest Kid in Smallville!" (an imaginary story starring Superboy, Lana Lang, Ma and Pa Kent, Police Chief Parker) written by Leo Dorfman, penciled and inked by George Papp. What if Superboy's alter ego was a bully instead of the meek Clark Kent?

Superboy (1949)

Publisher

DC Comics

Volume Description

House Ad 

Superboy (Volume 1)  

 Starring: Clark Kent as Superboy.

Continued in: Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes

Superboy had been making appearances as the lead feature in Adventure Comics since early 1946, but he finally debuted in his own series in 1949. Any Superman fans who were unaware of the concept of the "adventures of Superman when he was a boy" may have been reassured by the fact that the man of steel himself introduced the series on the cover of the first issue. The Superboy series would feature work by the likes of France E. Heron and William Woolfolk and its success would last for over 30 years.

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