| Unofficial Superboy Index |
Credits:
| Art | John Sikela |
| Editing | Mort Weisinger |
Feature Character(s):
- Superboy (last in Adventure Comics #242; next in the second story in this issue)
Supporting Character(s):
- Martha Kent (last in Adventure Comics #242; next in the second story in this issue)
- Lana Lang (last in Adventure Comics #242; next in the second story in this issue)
- Lewis Lang (in between issues #60/3 and #62/3)
Villain(s):
- a would-be hit-man (first appearance)
Other Character(s):
- unidentified aliens (first appearance of all; aliens of "microscopic" size)
- an unidentified passerby (the hit-man's would-be victim)
Location(s):
Story Reprinted in:
- Adventure Comics #317/2 (December 1957)
Credits:
| Art | John Sikela |
| Editing | Mort Weisinger |
Feature Character(s):
- Superboy (in between first and the third stories in this issue; also in two flashbacks, last/next ???)
Supporting Character(s):
- Jonathan Kent (last in Adventure Comics #242; next in issue #62)
- Martha Kent (last in the first story in this issue; next in issue #62)
- Lana Lang (last in the first story in this issue; next in Adventure Comics #243)
Villain(s):
- a radium-eating beast from Krypton (first appearance; in flashback)
Other Character(s):
- citizens of Smallville
- Johnny (first appearance; a young boy)
- Professor Henry (first appearance; in flashback; creates a kryptonite antidote; destroys both his notes and the sample which was made from rare ingredients as he thought it was a failure, but actually it was only successful outside of Earth's atmosphere)
Cameo Appearance(s):
- Earth orbit
- the arctic (in flashback)
- a remote island (first appearance; in flashback; Professor Henry's lab)
- Smallville
Comment(s):
- The radium-eating beast is said to be native to Krypton but no explanation is given as to how it could have survived Krypton's destruction More importantly, why instead of Kryptonians super powers it had kryptonite vision which did not hrm the beast, Furthermore, Superboy was somehow able to take away all its powers making it a "normal" animal which he brought to the zoo.
Credits:
| Story | Jerry Coleman |
| Art | John Sikela |
| Editing | Mort Weisinger |
Feature Character(s):
- Superboy (last in the second story in this issue; next in Adventure Comics #243)
Villain(s):
- two crooks (first appearance for both; trick Superboy into using his x-ray vision to create platinum for them)
- a young actor, posing as Superboy (first appearance; attempts to con Smallville kids into thinking they've gained Superboy' powers)
Other Character(s):
- some teenage boys (all trying to "learn" how to get Superboy powers; Tommy named)
Location(s):