Issue Description

Be Yourself - Your Best Self! (public service message by Buzzy / written by Jack Schiff) -- 2. Lana Lang Movie Star! (Superboy, Lana / written by Ed Hamilton) -- 3. Superboy's Big Brother! (Superboy, Ma and Pa Kent / written by Al Schwartz) -- 4. Radar Rescue (Captain Tootsie / by C. C. Beck) -- 5. Jerry Jitterbug (gag strip by Henry Boltinoff) -- 6. Atomic Cloud Chamber (Superboy's Workshop) -- 7. For Club and Country (full text article by David King) -- 8. The Men Who Doubted Superboy! (Superboy) -- 9. Casey the Cop (gag strip by Henry Boltinoff) -- 10. Private Pete (gag strip by Henry Boltinoff)

Pa Kent: Painting the fence in only a few seconds -- that's our boy, Ma!

Ma Kent: No, Pa, that's our Superboy!

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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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