Issue Description

Mon-el travels to Earth in a rocket and Superboy mistakingly believes that Mon-el is his older brother from Krypton. After a while, Superboy suspects that Mon-el is a fake and paints large balls of lead green to simulate kryptonite. Unfortunately, the lead is extremely toxic to Mon-el and he finally explains that he is a Daxamite and actually visited Krypton before it exploded. Superboy and Mon-el decide to leave Mon-el in the Phantom Zone until he can receive a cure for his lead poisoning.

For a similar story see: "Superman’s Big Brother” in Superman #80)

Ollie (gag strip by Henry Boltinoff)

Ollie (gag strip by Henry Boltinoff)

The Super-Cop of Smallville! (Superboy, Krypto / written by Jerry Siegel)

Oh no! Smallville police have all got the measles! Can Superboy fill in for the force?

Superboy (1949)

Publisher

DC Comics

Volume Description

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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