525 – Super-Fat Boy of Steel

A panel from Superboy #24, December 1952
A panel from Superboy #24, December 1952

The beginnings of putting Superman / Superboy in increasingly crazier situations starts in Superboy #24 (December 1952). In “The Super-Fat Boy of Steel!”, experimental rays from the college of agricultural has made all the teens of Smallville fat over night, including Superboy/Clark. Naturally it is undone as fast as it happened, and spoiler alert: Lana does not discover that Clark is Superman.