In the midst of major superhero books being cancelled, it is surprising to see a superhero character get a new book all their own, but Superboy #1 debuts in January 1949. Superboy also had his own distinctive font/logo that I associate heavily with the Silver Age. The first time this logo was used was actually […]
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For the tenth anniversary of Superman’s first appearance, DC re-told Superman’s origin in even greater detail in Superman #53 (May 1948) with a compelling splash page showing Superman’s sadness at losing two sets of parents. The first half of the story takes place on Krypton. In it, we see in greater detail how Jor-el tried […]
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In Adventure Comics #128 (March 1948), the writers of Superboy decided to toss more continuity out the door in favor of a cool story idea: A young Clark Kent win a prize to be a cub reporter for the summer for the Daily Planet, and guess who the other winner is: Lois Lane! Of course […]
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The anachronisms in Superboy stories keep coming with Adventure Comics #121 (August 1947). Superboy helps cheat in a “collector competition” by finding a rock that can be used as a source of radium and uranium, which are acknowledged as “principal raw materials for atomic energy”. Even being generous and saying these stories take place 20 […]
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In Adventure Comics #120 (July 1947) features the debut of a young Perry White in the Superboy story. Perry gets his first job at the Daily Planet as a cub reporter, while Clark becomes a paper boy. It’s not really clear why Clark is living in Metropolis at this time, when it’s been clearly established […]
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In Adventure Comics #112 (November 1946), classmates of a young Clark Kent are given cars for passing their exams. How old are these kids anyhow?!? Last I saw, Clark was only 12 years old! Not only that, but those cars definitely seem like 1940s models and not 1920s models. Continuity errors and anachronisms abound!
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In Adventure Comics #111 (October 1946), we see the second appearance of Jack Smart, reporter for the Daily Planet and Superboy’s Pal. Beyond experimenting with the supporting cast, Superboy is also aging. He was definitively ten years old at the beginning of 1946 and now appears to be almost an adolescent – maybe twelve years […]
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The writers of Superboy started to realize what their stories are missing: A supporting cast! In Adventure Comics #110 (September 1946), we see the first attempt at that: Jack Smart, reporter from the Daily Planet comes to the as-yet-unnamed small town where Clark lives as a boy to find out about Superboy. This directly contradicts […]
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In February 1946, Superboy finally moves to Adventure Comics in Issue #108. This story establishes that Clark is ten years old and shows a rare glimpse of his parents, Ma and Pa Kent who are unnamed and whose appearance vary a bit from panel to panel (in one panel, Pa Kent is bald).
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The fledgling character Superboy makes his first appearance on the cover of More Fun Comics #104 (May 1945). In promoting him to the front cover, DC must have realized he was going to be a hit character, but he is little more than a bland 10-year old version of Superman with no supporting cast at […]
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