History: (Action Comics I #378 (fb)) - Joe-El and Lara took the newborn Kal-El to the sun temple of Kryptonopolis for his christening, sponsored by Kal-El-’s godfather Rol-Nac, an extraterrestrial refuge who’d become friends with Jor-El after saving him from one of his early experimental rockets that almost crashed on his lab.

(New Adventures of Superboy #14) - The Kents took Superbaby to Zatara’s magic show. Zatara was still perfecting his magic, and when he saw Superbaby flying outside of town he assumed it was because of a miscast spell, and cast a spell to make Superbaby lose the power of flight. Bank robbers confronted Zatara, they’d seen his show, and wanted him to use his magic in their robberies. When he refused they maced his throat so he couldn’t speak. Superbaby was outraged and single-handedly took out the thugs. Zatara realized his magic had nothing to do with the boy’s powers, and gave him back his flight. Zatara didn’t catch the boy’s name, but was positive the whole world would hear of him one day.

(New Adventures of Superboy #19) - The Kents took young Clark to an Easter-Egg hunt, and warned Superbaby not to use any of his powers. Lana Lang was winning the game, and Clark discovered jewels hidden under a tree that he thought were enough Easter eggs to win the game. The jewels were buried by crooks who were watching the hunt, and dismayed when they saw Clark dig them up. They offered Clark a quarter for them, and suspecting something wasn’t right, Clark put a loudspeaker up to their mouths. Officer Parker, who was officiating the hunt, quickly apprehended the criminals.

(New Adventures of Superboy #1) - On his eighth birthday Clark was given permission by the Kents to start his superhero career as Superboy. Aliens Myla and Byrn tried to abduct him, but he resisted their energi-grapplers and escaped. They later showed up at the Kents house and promised they meant no harm. They’d accidentally attained immortality millions of years ago, and found their endless life to be torturously boring and lonely. They’d invented an absorbent beam to transfer the aging factor from another being and asked Superboy to use it. He would be forever eight years old, and they would have an aging factor and eventually die. The Kents begged Superboy to refuse, but he told the aliens he would help them. He apparently used the beam on himself, but in truth he’d used his heat-vision to stop the beam. He picked up that the aliens’ condition was mental, and if they believed they could age, they would. The aliens mind-wiped his memory of that day, fearing he’d regret deciding to become immortal, and as a tradition the Kents decided to add an extra candle to Superboy’s future birthday cakes.

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(New Adventures of Superboy #12) - Clark and the Kents were amazed at the amount of speculation Superboy’s debut caused. Some people claimed he was a warlock, a mutant, a government experiment or a mass hallucination. Clark wanted to tell his story, but the Kents warned him about humanity’s intolerance to different races and religions, let alone a Kryptonian, and urged him to choose whomever he told his story to carefully. Metropolis reporter Perry White was in Metropolis for an interview with Superboy, and together they foiled “Cracker” Bain’s plan to murder local officer Rowe. Superboy trusted Perry and gave him the exclusive about his alien origins. Perry reported the story fairly, and although there was a divide of opinions Congress approved making Superboy a special citizenship.

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(New Adventures of Superboy #20, 21) - At age 10 Superboy tried an experiment traveling in hyperspace, vibrating his body to travel faster than light. He ended up in an unknown galaxy, and near a red sun. Superboy didn’t realize his powers came from yellow sun radiation, and had to cope with survival on the alien world without his power. The slug-like aliens he encountered communicated through electrical bursts, and he initially thought they were attacking him. They shackled him, but after the misunderstanding was cleared up he was freed. He observed their primitive methods of gathering granna, undsersea life that was their main subsistence, and taught them to use an aqualung and construct a submarine. He was glad to contribute to their society, but needed to get home, so he converted the sub into a rocketship and flew through the hole he’d entered to access hyperspace. Back on Earth Pa worked out that a res sun like the one Krypton had would strip him of his powers. Superboy wondered if the alien civilization he encountered was wondering where he was.

(New Adventures of Superboy #22) - A few days after his 10^th birthday Superboy rescued spelunkers from a cave-in, but using his x-ray vision to locate them released radioactive gas from the cave’s stones. He froze the poison gas cloud and sent it into space. He told the Kents he was disappointed in himself for not being more careful. Pa said he wouldn’t tell him to take it easy on himself. His immense powers meant he needed extreme caution in using them.

(New Adventures of Superboy #22) - Superboy returned from a space-mission, but a glob-monster from space followed him and engulfed him. They headed towards Smallville, where the monster would continue to consume everything in its path, so Superboy sped up their fall, drilling into the Earth, and continuing until they reached the other side of Earth. Once they reached space again Clark released it. Superboy cursed himself for his carelessness.

(New Adventures of Superboy #23) - Superboy practiced space maneuvers, but checked in on Smallville with his super-vision just in time to save a boy from being run over by fleeing robbers. Chief Parker wished there was some way for him to contact Superboy when he needed to, and Superboy promised to think the idea over. The President called Parker to ask for Superboy’s aid, and he found an atomic weapon planted by a scientist that had snapped. Superboy designed a signal box that would cause his bedroom lamp to flicker on and off, and gave a box to parker and the President.

 (New Adventures of Superboy #18) - Lana and Clark prepared for their first year in high school, and Lana suggested he get a new look. Clark took her comment to heart and redesigned his Superboy costume as primarily yellow with a blue cape and red boots. He went into action plugging up a radioactive geyser in Death Valley and halting a robbery at a county fair, but felt his powers fading. He realized the amount of yellow in the costume was reflecting the sunlight that gave him his powers, and put away the costume for good.

(New Adventures of Superboy #9) - Bash Bashford spilled milk on Clark’s clothes and Lana upbraided him for being such a pushover. Bash’s actions caused problems when Clark had to leave school as Superboy to stop a robbery. Bash found Clark’s abandoned clothes and wondered if he was Superboy, but the Teen of Steel used his heat-vision to dry the milk-stain, returned home, and changed into another set of clothes that he stained. Bash had to admit he was barking up the wrong tree. Clark decided to make a pouch in his cape to store his super-compressed civilian clothes, so he’d be less at risk for exposing his identity. The Kents told him how proud they were that he was learning to solve problems on his own when they weren’t around to help.

(Superboy I #27) - Superboy tried to keep kids on summer break off the streets with the Superboy Recreation Center, but found that attendance was down. Most kids preferred loitering, but Superboy came across hobo musician Jerry Howe, who called himself the Pied Piper. He entertained the kids, so Superboy built a theatre for him. Superboy received a plaque for his work with children, but Jerry was ignored because he was a hobo and he swore that Smallville would be sorry. Small-time Metropolis crook Gaff Lomar overheard him, and got an idea. He kidnapped and impersonated Jerry, telling the kids that he was filming a movie called the Piped Piper, and if they followed him to dangerous locales like blasting areas and unfinished bridges they’d be rewarded and in no real danger because Superboy would save them. They followed, and Superboy prevented disaster, but the parents were outraged. The impersonator told the parents he’d leave town for $50,000, and that while Superboy had no legal right to arrest him his ‘power’ came from his wooden reeds that were carved from wood by the original Pied Piper of Hamlin. Superboy uncovered his ruse and brought him into custody.

(Superboy I #27) -Clark Kent’s personal items started vanishing, and he suspected Lana was trying to uncover his secret identity, butin reality 30th century museum curator Jonathan Exo was taking items from the past for his Superman exhibit, and he brought Superboy into the future as well. Exo’s fourth dimensional camera was only supposed to take pictures of the past, but he hadn’t had time to perfect it because his rival Dirl Heston was driving him out of business with authentic Superman souveniers. Superboy made him promise to stop using the camera in exchange for filming him performing fake heroic acts like stopping a runaway train. Exo’s films were a success, but jealous Heston tried to kill him. Superboy saved the day and returned to the past.

(Superboy I #27) - Clark returned home to find the Kents replaced by imposters, criminal actors who’d guessed his identity of Superboy and wanted to expose him so they could blackmail him. After Clark and “Pa” had an argument about household chores Clark ran away from home, and freed his real parents from the underground cell where they were being held. To throw off the crooks he had Superboy act coldly toward them, telling them he didn’t have time to look for a runaway boy, even when “Ma” claimed to be dying of a broken heart. With his ruse complete Superboy exposed the fake Kents and sent them to jail.

(Adventure Comics I #251 (fb)) - Clark started a mineral collection for his geology class, and Pa went to the site where his rocket landed on Earth, and picked up a radioactive rock from the area. Clark soon fell deathly ill, not realizing the rock was responsible. He had Pa operate his newly constructed Superboy Robot to keep Smallville safe while he was sick, though it took a while for Pa to control the robot properly. Clark felt better at intervals before relapsing, not realizing his recovery coincided with his lead robot standing in front of the rock and blocking its radiation. The Kents feared the worst, and Pa vowed to keep his memory alive with the Superboy robot. The clues finally clicked for Pa and Clark, and Clark was saved when the rock was stored inside the Superboy Robot. Clark realized the rock was a radioactive remnant from the exploded Krypton, and named it Kryptonite. Pa felt horrible about putting his son's life in jeopardy, but Clark was glad he'd learned of his vulnerability to kryptonite before any criminals did.

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(New Adventures of Superboy #17) - Superboy devised a hook and shower-head system that let Krypto remove his cape and spray himself with dye to create spots, giving him the civilian dog identity of Skippy. The Kents liked the idea but warned that Skippy would have to have his shots or town dog-catcher and vet Howard Shatt would be after him. Superboy knew needles would break on Krypto, and tried to give him advice, but Krypto shook his head, stubbornly determined to figure out the situation himself. Krypto made good, melting the needle, and saving Howard Shatt from criminals in the process.

(New Adventures of Superboy #22) - Krypto and Superboy stopped a mad-dog from mauling Chief Parker. Krypto kept the dog from being put down, and eventually determined that it didn’t have rabies, but was trained to attack parker by two thugs he’d put in jail years before.

(New Adventures of Superboy #22, 23) - Superboy stopped a volcanic eruption in Hawaii by plugging the volcano with a boulder, but this later caused a seaquake and a tidal wave. Superboy averted disaster, but was disappointed in himself for nbot thinking through his actions. He remembered past times he’d erred, accidentally unleashing a poison gas cloud on metropolis and bringing a glob-monster back with him from space. Lana and Clark went on a date at the amusement park and went through the Tunnel of Fright. Clark saw a robbery outside using his x-ray vision, so he feigned terror and jumped into the tunnel’s moat. Lana jumped in to make sure he didn’t drown himself, and bumped her head. She would have drowned if Clark didn’t quickly foil the robbery and rescue her. Clark had enough of his super-feats backfiring, this was the last straw. He vowed to exile himself, traveling in time to the year 1888, and settling in Cripple Creek as a reporter. He knew from his previous time travel experiences that nothing he did in the past could alter the present. He covered the story of outlaw Jess Manning being apprehended and afterwards asked Gail, his editor Rufus Matlock’s daughter, to let him walk her home. When local roughnecks accosted them he trounced them, and was glad to finally be rid of his meek and mild performance as Clark Kent. When Mr. Matlock was almost trampled by a horse Clark revealed his powers, and then flew off. Matlock considered writing about Clark, but believed no one would take him seriously. Manning’s son Toby busted him out of prison, but a visiting alien killed Jess and tried to destroy Cripple Creek to test out his spacecraft’s weaponry. Clark foiled him and threw his ship back into space. He realized that the benefits of using his powers to help people far outweighed the risks, and returned to the present era.

(New Adventures of Superboy #31) - Superboy felt his powers fading, the result of a satellite beaming red-sun radiation at him. Robert Altus was obsessed with making his son Pulsar Earth's champion, and he didn't want him want his son to have competition nor an alien as Earth's savior. Pulsar stopped a number of disasters, and challenged Superboy to a fight, roundly defeating him and demanding he retire. Prodded by his father Pulsar became a tin-pot dictator, interfering in international affairs, and never giving much thought to loss of property or life when he acted as a superhero. Pulsar busted into the United Nations and told them their way wasn't working, and from now on they'd take orders from him. Superboy couldn't take this, and after Pa Kent gave him some boxing lessons so he wouldn't have to rely entirely on his superpowers he built a lightweight armor to block out Robert Altus' red-sun rays he. He challenged Pulsar to a rematch, and defeated him; afterwards Pulsar admitted his heart wasn't in being a superhero or a dictator. Robert Altus accused his son of being a failure, and threatened to destroy Smallville if Superboy didn't submit to a massive red-sun burst. Pulsar used a force field to deflect the energy beam that was intended for Smallville, and he helped Superboy apprehend his father, who he admitted was seriously ill.

(New Adventures of Superboy #32) - Clark and Pete Ross went hiking when Clark spied an alien spaceship that had landed on the outskirts of town. Its power supply was ready to blow, so he changed into Superboy and sent it back into space to explode. While he was distracted Trohnn, pilot of the ship and renegade member of the Superboy Revenge Squad kidnapped Pete Ross and assumed his image. Over the next few days Superboy felt his powers rapidly fading, never guessing that Trohnn's presence was the cause. The rest of the Revenge Squad was in dire straights and needed Superboy's help, so they saved him from hurting himself while he performed heroics.

(Adventure Comics I #250) - The Kents watched TV at breakfast, and a message came through a time barrier sent by Inspector Edaw-8 of the 30th Century Scotland Yard. Criminal Lorac had traveled back in time, seeking cobalt, which was outlawed in the 30th Century, to create a doomsday weapon. Lorac knew Superboy's identity, because it was public knowledge in the future, and was disguised as one of his friends or neighbors. Superboy went into action, and visited the Smallville hospital, where they used cobalt in place of radium for medical treatment. He flew the cobalt into the sun, turning it to radium, so it could be used at the hospital without being a target for Lorac. He began to suspect Pa, who was acting forgetful after bumping his head, and Professor Lang, who was nervous about a speech he'd prepared for a science convention. Lorac was at school, and stole cobalt from the science lab, but was hiding it from Superboy with a lead box. The school went on a field trip to the steel mill, and Lorac struck once again, stealing cobalt used to make special steel. Superboy realized Lana was present every time cobalt was stolen, and Lorac spelled backwards was Carol, so Lorac must have been a female. He trapped "Lana" in a cage, and forced her to hand over the cobalt, telling her the thing that convinced her she was an imposter was the fact  that she hadn't once tried to uncover his secret identity that day. Lana turned out to be Lorac's ancestor, so she hadn't hurt her, and after Superboy checked in on his friend he sent Lorac back to the future to answer for her crimes.

(Adventure Comics I #251) - The Kents did some spring cleaning, and Clark realized how crowded his secret storeroom had gotten. His Superboy Robots, used to pinch-hit for Superboy as need be, took up a lot of space, but they were invaluable. Pa said Superboy Robot no. 1 was obsolete, built of heavy lead instead of lighter alloys, but Clark couldn't let "Friday" go for sentimental reasons, remembering how the robot saved his life when he first encountered kryptonite. He sent No. 1out on patrol for old-times sake.

(Adventure Comics I #304) - Superboy volunteered to help the army test a new type of artillary by offering himself as a living target. After the test an adult version of Superboy, a Superman flew down from the sky. He showed Superboy that the artillery had cracked open a nearby mountainside, exposing red kryptonite, and it’s effect was to create the adult duplicate. Superboy introduced the Kents to Superman, and they were thrilled to now have two children. For the Kents’ wedding anniversary Superboy crafted a new line of Superman robots, and Superman concocted a potion that gave the Kents temporary superpowers. Superman told Superboy that his super-intellect had figured out that the two of them coexisting would cause spacetime disruptions that would destroy the solar system unless one of them left Earth in the next 48 hours. They were going to flip a coin to decide who staid, but as it was coming down Superman melted it with his heat vision, claiming it was an accident. They agreed to have the Kents decide, but Superboy used a dream projector on his sleeping parents, saw them dreaming about being superheroes once Superman made the effects of his potion permanent, so the next morning Superboy announced that he’d leave Earth after one last stroll around Smallville. Clark and Superman, posing as his uncle “Charles,” visited Lana Lang who wanted to show off her violin-playing skills, telling them she had an upcoming recital. Her high pitched playing caused the glass around her to break, but she thought her playing was pretty good. Krypto returned from one of his space jaunts in time to say goodbye to Superboy before Superman had him enter a space capsule and hurled him beyond the atmosphere towards a planet with a red sun. The Kents realized Superman was an imposter when the civilian glasses he used as Charles proved to be cracked from Lana’s music, which could never happen to Superboy’s glasses, which were made from unbreakable Kryptonian plastoid from the window of the ship that brought him to Earth. “Superman” revealed that he was actually the Kryptonian criminal Roz-Em, who’d paid a plastic surgeon to make him look like Kal-El’s uncle Nim-El in an attempt to raid the armory of forbidden weapons that Nim-El guarded. His plot was uncovered by Jor-El and Nim-el, and he was put into suspended animation inside a space capsule until it drifted near a yellow sun, giving him superpowers. He’d seen Krypton explode and baby Kal-El rocketed to Earth, so he was determined to avenge himself for his imprisonment by targeting Jor-El’s son, fabricating fake red-K and concocting his spacetime in danger story. Pa Kent had gotten Krypto to fly into space to warn Superboy that they were in danger, and Superboy returned to Earth and used the Phantom Zone Projector to exile Roz-Em.

(Adventure Comics I #304) -The Legion were set to have their annual vote to elect a new leader, and Saturn Girl was the first to arrive at the Clubhouse. A crystal capsule sent from the Trylop Council of Mernl dropped from the sky warning that their computers predicted a Legionnaire would die using their powers during an upcoming invasion of Earth by Zaryan the Conqueror, and Saturn Girl resolved to sacrifice herself to protect her fellow Legionnaires. She used her thought control to nudge the Legion into electing her leader, then used a rainbow bar from their treasury to make medallions with her face printed on them, and demanded every Legionnaire wear one. She demanded the Legionnaires demonstrate effective use of their powers, and was able to temporarily duplicate each member of the Legion’s powers using the medallions they wore, and proceeded to forbid them for using their powers or going on missions during a probation period because she declared they were not using their powers properly. When Zaryan began his invasion of Earth she responded, and warned the other Legionnaires not to follow her because they were on probation. The Legion thought she’d gone mad with power, but Mon-El had observed her actions from the Phantom Zone, and knew her motivations. Sunspots interfered with him communicating with the Legion, but when they lifted he filled in Lightning Lad on the situation, and he flew into space, determined to keep Saturn Girl from sacrificing herself. He blew up Zaryan’s ship with his powers, but was fatally shot with a freeze-ray. The Legion honored him by placing him in a glass coffin with lightning generated over it by a perpetual motion device, and his funeral was attended by Superboy, Supergirl and Lori Lemaris. The Legion placed a statue of Lightning Lad in their Clubhouse as a tribute to the first Legionnaire killed in action.

(Adventure Comics I #305) - The school boxing champ Joe bullied Clark and Lana was disappointed in him for not standing up for himself. Clark got tired of staying under the radar by pretending to be a pushover and a below-average athlete, and the final straw for Clark came when he saw Lana and Pete Ross attending Bud Cowin’s party; realizing he was never invited to anything. Pa Kent was frustrated that he never had anything to brag to the other parents of Smallville about, and the other parents seemed to take pity on him for having such an average son. When Clark embarrassed him pretending to be a coward on a father / son hunting trip Pa couldn’t take it anymore came up with a plan,. Clark and the Kents moved to Rail City as the Dentons. Clark ditched his glasses, and as “Mark Denton” became an outstanding athlete and popular student. When he went on patrol as Superboy he wore a mask so no one would suspect his secret identity. For all of Clark’s achievements Pa was given an award by the Rail City fathers’ committee and made honorary mayor at a parade. Mark waited tables at the Denton’s drive-in diner, and when the city dam burst he couldn’t get away so he used super-ventriloquism to call a Superboy Robot from Smallville to save the day. Mark’s newfound popularity made it extremely difficult to get away from his admirers when Superboy needed to fly into action, and since Pa was always entertaining guests he couldn’t activate his Superboy Robot, which was hidden in the dining room closet, without exposing his identity. When a gorilla escaped a circus and went on a rampage Chameleon Boy, who was on a mission in the past, had to shapeshift into Superboy and fill in. Superboy realized his charade was hampering his superhero career and decided to return to Smallville as meek and mild Clark Kent.

(Adventure Comics I #306) -In the 5th Dimension Master Mxyzptlk and his rival Ququrlz were competing for top grades in practical joking, and were assigned to perform a joke outside of school as their final. Mxyzptlk knew he could play the best jokes on Earth, but that Superboy would try to foil him, so he went to Smallville and used his magic to make sure anyone saying their name backward would send them to the 5th Dimension for 90 days, not just him. Smallville celebrated the anniversary of Superboy’s first appearance in town with a giant birthday cake, and Mxy rearranged the letters to spell Yobrepus, but two naughty children ate the “S” so Superboy didn’t end up saying his name backwards, and he immediately suspected Mxy. Lana Lang questioned Superboy about why Clark Kent wasn’t at the celebration, so Superboy rushed home, changed into Clark, and told Lana he’d been kept busy with chores from the Kents. Lana decided to secretly follow him some more to prove he was Superboy. Mxy gave every machine in Smallville an electric brain and made them rebel against the public, causing belligerent cars and elevators to cause panic. Superboy flew to a mountaintop, and shouted his name backwards, causing Mxy to show up, but the imp was disappointed that his magic didn’t work, because Superboy hadn’t spoken his real name Kal-El backwards. Lana’d lost track of Clark a while back but caught up to Superboy on the mountain, and Mxy tricked her into saying her name backwards, telling Superboy he’d have to go to the 5th Dimension to save her. Krypto returned from a space jaunt, and Superboy feigned worrying that Mxy would give Krypto the power to speak and ruin his plan to save Lana. Mxy fell for the trick, and Superboy told Krypto to keep Smallville safe while Superboy traveled to the 5th Dimension. Before saying his name backwards Superboy told Krypto to do the same if Mxy came up with anything he couldn’t handle. In the 5th Dimension an adult told Superboy and Lana that because they were new to the dimension and minors they’d be assigned foster parents and have to start attending high school. Superboy used his powers to simulate magic, wowing the teachers with his practical jokes, while Lana kept getting sent to younger and younger classes because she possessed neither magic abilities nor superpowers, and Superboy hoped she’d learn a humbling lesson and stop snooping on him. Superboy got top grades in the school, surpassing Mxy and Ququrlz by carving a mountain into a replica of the school, making the teachers think school had been petrified. In Smallville Mxy gave everyone a Superboy costume and the delusion that they were Superboy, so Krypto knew it was time for Superboy to act. After hearing Krypto’s plea, Superboy fashioned a Mxy robot and had a teacher observe it playing hooky. The teacher activated the robotic dimensional truant officer to bring in Mxy, so it traveled to Smallville and brought him back. Superboy announced that trick as his final project, and was awarded top practical joking honors, infuriating Mxy, who happily sent him, Krypto and Lana back to Smallville. Superboy asked Lana if she’d learned her lesson, and she promised to stop hounding him, but kept her fingers crossed.

(Adventure Comics I #307) - The Langs went away on a trip, but couldn’t take Lana with them, so they arranged to have her live with the Kents until they returned. Clark reminded Lana of how foolish she looked the last time she tried to prove he was Superboy, causing her to instantly break her recent promise to stop hounding him, and making her more determined than ever to expose him as Superboy. During a walk outside she hurled herself into a river, telling Clark he’d have to prove he was Superboy and change her. Clark tunneled under the earth, found a salt mine, and brought a huge chunk of rock salt to the bottom of the river. The super-saline water kept Lana from drowning, and she accused him of being behind saving her. After more attempts to expose Clark failed to pay off she exposed Clark to red kryptonite she got off a nearby rare rock collector, and she soon realized Superboy had lost his voice. Clark fooled her into thinking he could still talk until the red-k wore off by using a telepathic helmet gifted to him as a trophy by the aliens of planet Yhalla. Clark thought she’d gone to far by exposing him to kryptonite, and decided to teach her a lesson. Clark stumbled into the police station and told Chief Parker he’d lost his memory. Parker called Lana to pick him up, and for a second she wondered if the red-k gave him amnesia. At the mention of Superboy he confessed to being the hero, proving his powers by shooting himself with a gun at the police station and lifting a safe. The gun and safe turned out to be props from a recent police show, so Lana was now convinced Clark wasn’t Superboy, but was a danger to himself. He jumped off a building, dressed as Superboy to show he could fly, but used his super-breathe to fly a clay figure of Superboy under him, catching him and dropping him off at another rooftop. Clark pretended to regain his senses, and Lana reasoned he’d temporarily snapped due to stress from too much school work, and made him promise her not to get the foolish idea that he was Superboy in his head ever again.

(Adventure Comics I #308) - Lex Luthor was given permission to build a prison radio station to broadcast music to Smallville, and on a day pass he visited Pa Kent’s general store for some radio parts. He assured Pa he had no hard feelings even though Pa was on the board that turned down his parole. An oil field was built outside Smallville, and when the oil driller hit a gusher it kicked a boulder into the air. Superboy smashed the boulder, preventing it from hitting a plane flying overhead. The rock turned out to be red kryptonite, and Lana Lang and Pete Ross collected the fragments and handed them over to Chief Parker so the kryptonite couldn’t harm Superboy. The Kents listened to Lex’s first broadcast on WPEN, and he dedicated a song to Chief Parker, who Lex said was a big man. Chief Parker grew to an enormous size, bursting through his police car. He soon shrank back to normal size, and asked Superboy if the red-k affected him, which puzzled Superboy, since red-k usually only affected Kryptonians. Luthor dedicated “Smoke Gets in Your eyes” to Pete Ross who started breathing fire in chemistry class, and “Reaching for the Moon” to Lana Lang who gained temporary super-stretching powers. Clark told the Kents he suspected Lex of being behind the red kryptonite virus spreading through town, but they thought he was jumping to conclusions. Luthor dedicated “It’s a Small World” to the Kents, who shrunk down to the size of dolls for a time, and “There’ll be some Changes Made” to Clark who showed up to school to find a Bizarro Clark Kent had taken his place in class. Superboy visited Lex who said he had nothing to do with the virus, his songs just predicted the red-k’s effects and said the song he picked for Superboy “Yoiu Leave Me Breathless” predicted that red-k radiation from Superboy’s body would destroy all of Earth’s oxygen. Lex said his one hope was to find a rare undersea plant that would eliminate the red-k virus, and gave Superboy undersea coordinated. Lex was actually working with the renegade Atlantean Kronn, who’d given Lex a mass hallucination transmitter that he used in WPEN’s broadcasts to simulate the red-k plague, even the red-k kicked up from the oil rig was an illusion. Superboy suspected the truth since a Bizarro Kent had turned up at his school instead of him being transformed into a Bizarro. He used his x-ray vision on Lex’s headset and discovered the transmitter. Superboy copied the transmitter, creating an illusion of Superboy discovering the undersea plant, ands Kronn sprung his trap, having placed clamshells filled with green kryptonite around the plant. Kronn saw the illusory Superboy die and sent a telepathic message to Lex, telling him he was safe to break out of prison. Superboy turned Kronn over to the Atlantean police, and returned to Smallville. Superboy and Chief Parker caught Lex escaping prison, and sent him right back to his cell.

(Adventure Comics I #309) - Mobster Blackie Burke was suffering from hallucinations after being wounded in the head during a gang war, and his doctor advised he take a relaxing vacation in the country. Blackie visited Smallville, and after an uneasy sleep he started his first day there on a hunting trip. He spotted Superboy flying out of his concealed tunnel, and realized the only nearby house was that of the Kents. Blackie was in shock at his luck discovering Superboy’s secret identity of Clark Kent, but worried he might have hallucinated the whole thing. He got a visit from Dirk Jagger, the son of jailed mobster Joe Jagger who said his dad’s connected friend Ace Brodie hooked him up with some kryptonite and a secret lair so he could destroy Superboy as revenge for sending his father to prison. Blackie told him his suspicion that Clark Kent was Superboy, and ordered some sandwiches from Pa Kent’s general store. Clark arrived with the food and when Dirk shoved the kryptonite at him he fainted. Dirk and Blackie took him to Dirk’s secret lair filled with Superboy museum pieces, including statues of Lara and Jor-El and a book detailing Superboy’s life on Krypton. There was also a Superboy disguise, and Dirk said he was going to pose as Superboy to help Ace pull off some robberies. He’d heard Professor Hugo Stanton from Metropolis had perfected a super-serum and they planned on tricking him into giving it to dirk. They left Clark to die of kryptonite poisoning and traveled to Metropolis. Professor Stanton gave the disguised dirk a quiz to prove he was the real Superboy, and he passed after having studied the Kryptonian chronicle. He flew Blackie back to the lair where Clark appeared dead, having turned green. The Lara and Jor-El statues talked, telling Blackie they’d have their revenge on him for murdering their son, and when Blackie tried to take off Dirk’s Superboy mask he was shocked to see it was his real face before passing out. “Dirk” was actually Superboy. He’d seen Blackie in the woods and realized he’d seen him emerge from his tunnel, and after using his x-ray vision to spot the anti-hallucination in Blackie’s pocket he came up with a plan to make Blackie think he was suffering a relapse. He posed as Dirk and the kryptonite he had was fake. “Clark” was played by Brainiac 5, whose green skin gave the illusion that Clark had died of kryptonite poisoning and Professor Potter disguised himself to play Professor Stanton. Super-ventriloquism to make his parents statues talk was the final part of his charade. Superboy thanked Brainiac for his help and flew Blackie through the time barrier, back to the night Blackie had arrived in Smallville. Blackie was convinced the previous day was just a nightmare, and when he visited Pa Kent at the general store to get some fishing gear he told him that he’d suspected Clark was Superboy and they had a laugh about it.

(Superboy I #159) - Superboy created new tamper-proof Superboy robots in his arctic Cave of Silence. While he was hard at work, Lex Luthor, disguised as Prof. Ruthol, unleashed his own imitation Superboy robots on the world, and ordered them to cause catastrophes worldwide. The world’s nations turned against Superboy, and the U.S. formed the Anti-Superboy Defense Council on the orders of the President. Superboy was alarmed that he’d been declared an outlaw and Ruthol’d been given funds to create kryptonite warheads. He had his Clark Kent robot pose as Voltran, an inter-galactic peacekeeper, who offered the Anti-Superboy Defense Council his aid. Ruthol, who suspected Voltran was Superboy, didn’t want to be showed up, and lured him into a battle against his Superboy robots in a mine. Voltran defeated them, but one of the robots was loaded with kryptonite. Ruthol, thinking he’d defeated Superboy, revealed himself as Luthor and gloated. The real Superboy revealed himself, apprehended Luthor, and told him he’d make him tell the world the truth, Superboy was still on the straight and narrow.

(Superboy I #160) - Clark’s teacher introduced the class to Cleops Amahdi, supposedly the daughter of Egypt’s ambassador Abduhl Amahdi. Cleops flirted with Clark, making Lana Lang jealous, and she reminded him that he was her date for the costume ball. That night Cleops put herself in peril by releasing a panther from the zoo, and Clark, as Superboy, rescued her, and seeing that she was so upset he agreed to be her date for the ball. They went to Pop’s Soda Fountain, and Lana disliked the idea of Cleops going after Smalville’s most eligible bachelors. They had a catfight, and Lana told Pete Ross she’s take him to the ball, because she was disgusted with both Superboy and Clark. At the ball Superboy engaged Cleops in a passionate hug, and losing control of his superstrength he seemingly broke her back and killed her. Filled with remorse he exiled himself to a red sun planet. Cleops revived, and challenged Lana to meet her on the rooftop. Cleops flung herself from the rooftop, making witness Pete Ross think Lana’d pushed her. Superboy returned to Earth to confess to Cleop’s death and found Lana on trial. Superboy figured out that Cleops was actually the resurrected Cleopatra, and had faked her death both times. Abdul Amahdi was actually Prof. Tingly, who’d found Cleopatra’s tomb and resurrected her for the express purpose of ruining Prof. Lang’s life because he was bitter at his former associate’s accolades. Superboy, having cleared himself and Lana, took Cleopatra’s sarcophagus and resolved to find a safe burial ground for it that only he would know.

(Superboy I #161) - Clark and Lana attended a football game at Smallville Stadium, and Lana’s eye was caught by star quarterback “Bash” Bashford. At the victory ball “Bash” made time with Lana, and although Clark wanted to stand up for himself, he needed to change to Superboy and save an airliner from crashing. Wishing he was like normal teens he challenged Bash to a boxing match after school the next day and developed a kryptonite diffuser lens to weaken himself gradually until his superpowers were obliterated. He resolved to let the Superboy robots take care of Smallville in the future, but at school a robot was barely able to blow away of chlorine gas caused when a train containing the gas crashed, and he suspected the robot was affected by the diffuser. Clark beat “Bash” at boxing, once again winning Lana’s affections. He tried out for the football team, and “Bash” loking for revenge tried to hurt him, but ended up with a serious skull fracture. Doctors knew only the world-renowned Dr. Franz Haller could save him, but he was in Vienna, and “Bash” needed surgery within the hour. Back home he talked to the Kents in hopes of finding a way of restoring his powers so he could fly Haller to Smallville. Realizing that kryptonite had a polar effect he realiz\ed he could neutralize the kryptonite in his system by imbibing a Krypton-cocktail of the proper dose. Risking his life on his calculations he drank the cocktail and was restored to Superboy. He brought Haller to “Bash,” saving his life, and “Bash” made friends with Clark. Lana was awed by “Bash’s” good graces and gave him a kiss. Clark knew petty teen drama wasn’t what he was meant for, and was happy to once again be a hero.

(Action Comics I #382) - Industrialists Cosvarr and Zorla used super-hypnosis to capture Superboy and Mon-El during a Legion mission, and after studying them found a way to duplicate their solar based powers to create a line of robots called the Protectors. Ultra Boy went shopping for a birthday present for Phantom Girl when he was ambushed by a Protector robot, who challenged him to combat. Ultra Boy was caught unaware, and after being slammed into a wall was hospitalized. Cosvarr gave a speech at the UP’s interworld security council, calling the Legion of Super-Heroes outdated as guardians of the UP, and showed them a tape of his Protector injuring Ultra Boy to prove it. Cosvarr then visited the Legion Clubhouse, delivered the same tape and pitch to Karate Kid and Shrinking Violet to gloat. Karate Kid worried that the UP would start buying Protectors, and any planet without them would feel endangered, sparking an arms race. Karate Kid sent out an emergency signal, and Light Lass and Timber Wold responded. They arrived on Jupiter to visit Cosvarr’s Protector production plant, with Light Lass posing as heiress Carina Walter, who was interested in purchasing Protectors. Cosvarr was immediately interested in seducing her, much to the annoyance of his partner Zorla, who said he chased after every woman he met. “Carina” questioned him about the source of the Protector’s powers, and Cosvarr showed her the unconscious Superboy and Mon-E.. Cosvarr then veered off topic, talking about his unhappy childhood and his need to make his mark in life before sending Zorla off and offering “Carina” a drink. Timber Wolf, Violet and Karate Kid infiltrated the plant, but were caught by Zorla, who realized “Carina” must also be a Legionnaire. She presented her captives to Cosvarr, who was trying to force himself on Light Lass, and Zorla was furious. She’d had enough, and allowed the Legionnaires to rescue Mon-El and Superboy and leave the plant before pressing a destruct button that atomized the plant, destroying the Protectors and killing herself and Cosvarr in the process.

(Superboy I #172) - Superboy investigated the disappearance of poachers in Kenya, and came into conflict with Yango, a super-powered gorilla, but their powers were too evenly matched to have a victor. Superboy learned of Yango's common Kryptonian origin by breaking the time barrier and traveling to the past. The poachers escaped Yango's custody during his battle with Superboy, but Superboy apprehended them and turned them over to Yango, realizing they were both champions, Superboy of humanity, and Yango of apes. Yango kept the poachers in a cage, and Superboy promised to spread Yango's message throughout the civilized world.

(Superboy I #188) -  Mordru created blood-crystals that would instill anyone who saw them with an intense hatred of Superboy, and planned to distribute them worldwide. Superboy defeated him by burying him underground, canceling out his magic, and hurled the crystals into space. They were discovered in the 30^th Century by Chameleon Boy, who traveled into the past to kill Superboy. Chameleon Boy used kryptonite on the hero, but Superboy restrained him and buried him underground, negating Mordru’s magic. He dug up Chameleon Boy and returned him to the future with a story to share with his teammates.

(Superboy I #190) - Clark volunteered as a camp counselor at Camp Bravo near Dwarf Mountain, watching city orphans. He met assistant director Miss Price and the camp’s owner Mr. Bart, and the first day of camp ended with the kids watching a Melvin Mockingbird cartoon. After lights out Clark found the orphans sleepwalking their way to Dwarf Mountain and returned them to camp. Price convinced him that the kids were playing a trick on him, and this seemed reasonable because the orphans delighted in tormenting their nerdy new counselor. The next night Superboy returned a grizzly to a game farm, and when he returned to camp he found the children tunneling through Dwarf Mountain. He learned that Bart and Price hypnotized the children with the Mockingbird cartoon to search Dwarf Mountain for treasure hidden during the civil war by confederate dwarf troops. To distract Bart and Price Superboy used a panpipe to play a mockingbird song and lured the children for camp, making it appear that he led them into the lake to drown. In reality he’d frozen the lake to get the children to the other side, then melted it with his heat-vision. Superboy contacted the sheriff and caught Bart’s confession on tape.

(New Adventures of Superboy #1) - Clark celebrated his 16th birthday with the Kents, Lana Lang, and Pete Ross. As always the Kents added an extra candle to his birthday cake, never revealing that he had no memory of his 8^th birthday because of a memory wipe performed by aliens Myla and Byrn.

(New Adventures of Superboy #2) - Lana Lang sought Superboy’sa help, claiming her father had been possessed by a demon after recovering the Twins of Kokra statue from the middle east. Superboy went to the Lang residence, which was on fire. He couldn’t put out the mystic flame with his powers, so he let the fire immolate him and flew into space where it couldn’t exist. He returned and saw no evidence that prof. lang was a demon, although Lana kept going into fits and passed out. Lang explained that the twins of Kokra represented the Persian god of light Ahura Mazda, and his twin, god of darkness Ahriman. He said Lana was possessed and told Superboy to destroy Ahriman’s image with his heat vision. In truth Ahriman had possessed Prof. Lang and was trying to destroy the image of his twin so he’d suffer no further hindrances like the mystic flames Mazda sent after him. Superboy read Lang’s field notes and realized he was being manipulated, so he melted Ahriman’s image, freeing Lang from possession and forcing the demon from the earthly plane.

(New Adventures of Superboy #2) - The Kents insisted that Clark never use his powers when doing schoolwork, because whatever profession he chose as an adult would require the same discipline of performing well without revealing his Kryptonian nature. Clark balked at this, and further complained when the Kents told him to keep up his studies of the Kryptonian language, which he saw no use for, with his Kryptonian learning helmet. Clark heard a humming under the Kent’s barn and found the rocketship that brought him to Earth had a piece that was still active. He found the source of the noise and partially understood a warning in Kryptonina, but before he could translate it it exploded and covered him in a sub-zero element. He almost froze to death before bouncing his heat vision off the rocketship and melting the ice coating him. Clark learned his lesson and eagerly studied his native language, conceiving of the the idea to write a journal in Kryptonese.

(New Adventures of Superboy #3, 4) - Superboy patrolled Smallville during a massive lightning storm and saved the British rockers the Doodles from being electrocuted. Back at school Clark was picked on in gym by “Bash” Bashford and “Hunk” Wales, but the formerly meek and mild Joe Silver stood up to them and tossed them on a trampoline. Clark wondered what brought about the change, and was only more confused when Joe made his debut as superhero Astralad at the Smallville County Fair. Superboy wanted to know what Silver was up to, and he warned Superboy he was going to steal his thunder, and pitched the hero into space. Astralad was eager to let the world know his identity and tried to unmask before Lana Lang, but Superboy used his heat vision to blur his face, and when he tried to shout his name Superboy disrupted his voice using superspeed. Astralad apprehended crooks making a getaway in a hot-air balloon, but Superboy knocked him into the next state and delivered the crooks to the police himself. Astralad had enough, and kidnapped Clark Kent, hoping Superboy would come rescue him. He explained the source of his powers, his 30-year-old future self was an expert on dream research in Metropolis, and astrally projected his dreamself into the past to make his life in the future better. Clark convinced him that manipulating both reality and the past was far too dangerous. Astralad saw reason and returned to the future, leaving his 16 year old self with no memory of his heroic career.

(New Adventures of Superboy #5) - Superboy saved the archaeological site Bystia in Chile from an erupting volcano, but his powers shorted out, and he temporarily lost his powers of flight and superstrength. He eventually made his way back to Smallville, but confided in the kents that he worried his days as Superboy were numbered. An alien spacecraft appeared above the Kent’s home and destroyed ma’s tomato garden. Superboy pursued the aliens, but his powers once again failed. Pa nstudied the few tomatos left in the fridge and found that they had alien spores in them that absorbed red sunlight. Superboy’s powers were acting up because he’d eaten them, but confident that his powers were back he once again confronted the aliens. They were peaceful intergalactic farmers who’d lost acargo of the red sun spores on Earth, and were worried about the consequences of them growing on Earth. With Superboy’s help they destroyed the last of the spores, and they offered him his fondest desire, but he told them he never accepted rewards for his good deeds.

(New Adventures of Superboy #6) - Metropolis Detective-Sergeant William Henderson visited Smallville for a meeting with Superboy, telling him his talents could be put to better use in the big city. Superboy visited Metropolis, put out a fire at the Metro-Refinery, and was surprised at the sheer amount of crime and accidents there. He seriously considered Henderson’s offer, and the Kents told them they’d support him, going so far as to plan selling the General Store, even though they thought he was not ready. A Metropolis crime gang was in town, and robbed Smallville Savings so they could test out jet-boosters that were meant to lift the Metropolis Federal Savings vault, an exact duplicate of the one in Smallville. Hemnderson was onto them, but they knocked him out and put him in the vault before launching it into the nair. Superboy saved him, and they took out the gang, but Henderson realized they’d dodged a bullet, the criminals were armed with guns filled with kryptonite bullets. This reinforced Superboy’s decision, he still needed Smallville as a training ground before he was ready for the big city.

(New Adventures of Superboy #7) - Clark and the Kents attended Smallville High Parents’ Day and when Clark was picked on by “Bash” Basford he was rescued by Willy Mason. Mason confided in him that he found out his parents were aliens, and Clark told him he could stay with the Kents while Superboy dealt with the situation. Superboy confronted the aliens, and they teleported him to their homeworld Vulx. They only wanted to get Superboy’s attention, and gladly returned Mason’s parents to Earth while they explained their dilemma. Mutra rays, similar to cosmic rays, buffeted Vulx, and the atmosphere was no longer able to buffet them. Vulxan scientists concluded that the Mutra rays were slowly killing them, but Superboy’s presence absorbed all the incoming Mutra rays, freeing their bodies of poison for the first time. They told him he had to stay on Vulx to save their race, because once they were reexposed to the rays they’d perish within hours. Superboy respected the sanctity of all life, but didn’t like being tricked by the Vulxans into being their savior, or being forced to be exiled from Earth. He returned to Earth to think the situation over, and realized anything Kryptonian had the proper super-density to absorb the Mutra rays. He collected tons of kryptonite from space and brought it back to Vulx. Romax sculpted the  kryptonite into an image of Superboy to honor his actions.

(New Adventures of Superboy #8, 9) - Superboy saved Smallville farmland from being consumed by locusts, and returned home to find that the Kents no longer remembered his secret identity. This made preventing disasters as Superboy next to impossible because the Kents questioned him when he disappeared in the middle of the night, and refused to cover for him when he disappeared from school. He didn’t want to reveal his identity, fearing that their erased memories were the result of a diabolical plot against him, and that the revelation could drive them mad. Pete, who unbeknownst to him knew he was Superboy, covered for him when he could. Superboy made the dramatic decision to fake Clark’s death so he could continue his superhero career unhindered. He went canoeing with Pete and created a geyser in the water that capsized their canoe. After changing into Superboy he told Pete that the geyser vaporized Clark, and a funeral was held. Ma Kent slapped Superboy for failing to save her son. Superboy left Smallville, building a fortress in the Himalayas, and devoting every second of the day to averting disasters, but the strain of leaving his family and friends and his ceaseless work made him begin to crack. He was almost prepared to leave Earth when the Kents regained their memory and lured Superboy back to Smallville by setting a fire in their house. A space-jewel in Superboy’s trophy shelf repaired their memories, and they explained that Phantom Zone criminals had erased their memories to torment Superboy. The space-jewel opened up a telepathic channel with the Phantom Zone, so once they realized the villains plans they swiftly undid them. Clark Kent returned to Smallville, announcing that Superboy had to fake his death because three dangerous criminals were after him.

(New Adventures of Superboy #12) - Clark was on a botany field trip when he snuck away and saw P.J. Huxley’s car going off the road. He didn’t have time to change into costume, but pulled the car back onto the road, and fled at superspeed. Huxley wanted to thank his benefactor, and after recoving Clark’s shoe impressions he hired private detectives who located Clark. Clark pretended that it was a burst of adrenalin that let him save the day, and turned down an offer of one million dollars in reward, which he told Huxley to donate to Smallville charities. Huxley went on TV to tell the world that Clark was Smallville’s greatest hero, not Superboy, because he’d risked life and limb to save Huxley, while Superboy was never in danger during his heroic exploits. Clark and the Kents groaned, the whole idea of a secret identity was to keep a low profile. Huxley’s nephew Devon Wells and his fiancee Maureen were afraid Huxley would include Clark in his will, so they kidnapped him and threw him in a sinkhole. Clark changed into Superboy, apprehended the dup, and handed them over to justice. Huxley was disappointed in his nephew, and Clark told him to will his money to orphanages. Huxley told him it would be called the Clark kent Fund, which Clark found appropriate since he was an orphan.

(New Adventures of Superboy #13) - Lana invited Clark on a dig with hjer father for Indian arrowheads, but he didn’t like the attention he was getting from her since saving P.J. Huxley. Tigers being transported to the circus were freed in a traffic accident, and Clark changed into Superboy and rounded them up, but quickly changed back and hid under a car to convince Lana he was still a coward. The Kents told Clark they were going to Coast City for his aunt Mary and uncle Fred’s wedding anniversary and presented him with plane tickets. A storm wrecked the plane’s tail-assembly, and Clark pressed himself against his seat to keep the plane aloft until it could make an emergency landing. He impressed young Hal Jordan, a boy without fear who was returning to his hometown after a trip to Metropolis. Clark greeted his aunt and uncle, and as night fell he changed to Superboy to patrol Smallville, and broke up a gunfight between mobsters. Back in Coast City he went to the beach with uncle Fred’s neice Esther, who abandoned him when bullies kicked sand in his face. Clark ran into Hal, who couldn’t figure out why Clark was so meek. He taught Clark to hang-ten, and wanted to show him how to scuba, but Clark insisted that he had to return to his aunt and uncle. After the wedding anniversary party Superboy uncovered a smuggling ring using a submarine. Hal had stumbled across the smugglers while scuba0-diving, and while he did a good job of fighting the criminals, he was putting his life at risk and Superboy had to save him. Superboy told him he respected his fearlessness, but he’d have to combine it with good judgment and planning. Hal promised he’d meet him again.

(New Adventures of Superboy #14) - Superboy gave a speech at Soames Reform School in hopes of setting the juvenile delinquents there straight. One inmate was Lex Luthor, who was saved from harsher punishment because Superboy spoke up for him at his hearing, but Lex was still determined to destroy the Teen of Steel. Lex had placed a super-powers distorter in the podium Superboy used, and when Superboy returned home to the Kents he used his heat-vision to defrost the fridge, but caused a fire that refused to be put out. Superboy found that he lost control over all of his powers, and went over his moves over the past two days. Superboy had pa trail Luthor, and observed him sneaking out of Soames to go to a junkyard. Luthor had assumed his device was a failure and threw it out, but after seeing a news broadcast of Superboy on foot patrol, he knew the hero must be afraid to fly because his powers were no longer under his control. Superboy confronted Luthor, who threatened to smash the distorter so Superboy couldn’t reverse-engineer it, knowing Superboy would never risk harming him with his out-of-control powers.  Pa, wearing a mask, snuck up behind Luthor and knocked him out with a punch. Superboy took the device so he could study it and undo its effects, and wondered when Luthor would turn his genius to helping humanity.

(New Adventures of Superboy #15) - The Kents got a visit from Rupert Thaxter, who played college football with Pa, and his wife Aggie. They were oil tycoons, but unsatisfied because they were childless, and Thayer planned to arrange a meeting with Superboy and adopt him. He took Clark and Lana on a hot-air balloon ride, and steered the balloon into a storm, causing their ride to plummet. Thayer was sure Superboy would save them, and Clark surreptitiously used his super-breath to allow them a rough landing on Mallow Mountain. Clark caused a cave-in as they sought shelter in a cave, changed to Superboy and rescued them. He realized how sincere Thayer’s desire for a son was, but didn’t like the way he went about meeting him. He changed back to Clark, and pretended to be falling off a cliff. Thayer rescued him, and suddenly realized how his selfish plan could have gotten someone killed. He decided to return to Texas and adopt a child.

(New Adventures of Superboy #15, 16) - Superboy stopped a twister by spinning in the opposite direction at superspeed, but found his actions shifted him onto the parallel world Earth-2. He observed his Earth-2 counterpart argue with his parents. He’d just discovered his powers, and thought he was a freak fit only for a circus. Superboy confronted him, and taught him how to properly use his powers of flight and super-breath, encouraging him to put out a forest-fire and use his powers to do good. They raced home, and after Superboy explained the situation to the incredulous Kents he continued training Clark. Clark was still determined to be a circus performer to raise money for the Kents farm, which had seen hard times in the Depression. He made his debut as the Masked Wonder, and wowed the crowd, but after the circus tent-pole snapped he had to swing into action to save the crowd. He realized the enormous responsibility he had because of his powers, and left the circus. Superboy was proud of him, and by using their combined superspeed Superboy was sent back to Earth-1.

 (New Adventures of Superboy #16) - Nobel-Prize winner Dr. Elaine Crosley and former Olympic athlete Dan Drayton visited Smallville, and Clark got to meet their son Christopher. Christopher confessed that he could never live up to his parents’ expectations, being neither the athlete his dad was nor the intellect his mother was. Crosley theorized that Superboy needed to re-charge  his powers, and that was the reason he stayed in Smallville. Using her molecutron to track Superboy’s ultra-density she found the rocket that brought him to Earth and took its energy-supply, presuming it to be the source of his powers. She wanted to distill its essence to give Christopher super-powers, but her plan ended when crooks kidnapped her son. She sought Superboy’s help, and deduced that the reason he stayed in Smallville was family, not the need to recharge from a super-battery. Superboy was distressed that she realized his secret-identity, but saved Christopher and told Drayton and Crosley to accept their son as he was.  In gratitude Crosley used a hypnosis-device to erase Superboy’s identity from her mind.

(New Adventures of Superboy #17, 18) Superboy Robot X-3 relieved the pressure of a magma flow in the southwestern desert, but burned up in the process. Superboy mused that he’d have to find a way to construct more durable robots, and after using a Kryptonian mind-prober he watched his own infant self observe Joe-El construct a highly advanced robot. Armed with his new knowledge he had the Superboy Robots construct Kator, a robot with different powers than Superboy and far more durable. At a speech class at Smallville High “Moosie” Draper railed that people shouldn’t honor Superboy until he’d fought a supervillain equal to himself in power, and this made Clark think. In order to test himself he programmed Kator as an enemy and unleashed him on Superboy Day, fighting him and getting the worst of the encounter, but loving every minute of being challenged. The Kents were angry with their son, but he assured them that if things got out of hand Kator could be stopped, and he handed over a remote control safety switch to Pa. Kator confronted Clark and Lana, knowing Clark couldn’t reveal his secret identity. He burned his ‘K’ insignia into the park grounds, making it clear he intended to replace Superboy. Kator brought Superboy into space, far enough away that the safety switch Pa had would have no effect, but Superboy prevailed and knocked Kator into a yellow sun, disintegrating him. Unfortunately Kator knew he might not survive the battle and created a machine that would duplicate his powers. He’d already approached Carl Draper to replace him if he perished, and the new Kator lured Superboy and Lana to a sportsfield. He was determined to kill Superboy and win Lana's heart, and the super-battle went against Superboy. He fled to the Kents, where pa used the safety switch to knock out Carl’s powers. Superboy used the mind-prober to erase Draper’s memories of his brief career in villainy.

(New Adventures of Superboy #19) - Clark went on a camping trip with Pa, and promised not to let Pa see him in action as Superboy. On the drive to camp they passed Cory Renwald, a juvenile delinquent that the Kents fostered before they found Clark. Pa always wondered what happened to him, but decided to keep quiet, because he’d never told Clark about Cory. Cory had a flat, and Clark offered to help, but Cory waved him off. Clark’s super-senses let him know that the encounter stressed him, and used his super-hearing and vision to keep an eye on him. Cory was with two Russians, and was acting as a double-agent for the U.S. government. The Russians came on the Kents’ campsite and ordered Cory to execute the,m, but he used non-lethal tranquilizers that merely put Pa to sleep and gave Clark a chance to change into Superboy. The Russians used a magna-beam to pull an American spy satellite out of the eye, and Superboy listened in on Cory’s communication with the C.I.A. discovering that the satellite contained erroneous data that would put the Russian spy business back years. Clark and pa returned home, where they were visited by the C.I.A. The government man told the Kents he couldn’t go into details, but that he should be proud of the way Cory turned out.

(New Adventures of Superboy #20) - Superboy awoke on the planet Ulmara after being dragged there in his sleep by a tractor beam. Ulmaran Povla tried to comfort him, and told him he’d be the star attraction on Ulmara, a tourist planet that collected living wonders from across the universe. The Ulmarans used monva-radiation to pacify the minds of their wonders and make them forget their past, and Superboy found he couldn’t leave the planet. He acted as a performer until Povla and an alien from Baltur gave him another dose of radiation and commanded he destroy the other living wonders and then destroy the planet. The Baltur were jealous of the Ulmarans and Povla was bitter at being underpaid. They demonstrated what they wanted by destroying a model of Ulmara, and this reminded Superboy of Krypton’s destruction, enabling him to shake off the radiation and apprehend the aliens. Grand Lurom, leader of Ulmara, agreed to stop dosing his wonders with momva-radiation, and would give them the choice of staying on or returning home. Superboy assured him he had a lovely planet and that some wonders would choose to stay, but he was returning home.

(New Adventures of Superboy #21) - Superboy performed at a fireworks display, using pyrotechnics to create his insignia in the sky, and afterwards he met master salesman Huey B. McKay. McKay promised they could earn millions of dollars for charity together if Superboy agreed to perform super-feats exclusively form him. Superboiy took leave of his senses, and signed a five-year contract. Pa was infuriated, but Ma assumed he had a plan. He admitted he didn’t, but figured out that the unique pitch of McKay’s voice dampened his will in a hypnotic effect. A space-wraith landed in Smallville, turning everything in its path to stone. Superboy had Mckay give him a hypnotic suggestion that he had a new one-use superpower, turning into a wraith like the alien. Willing his new power to manifest, Superboy engaged the wraith in combat and hurled it into space. Pa saved Superboy from his conbtract, sending Mckay a letter saying he couldn’t legally prove that the alien Superboy’s age was that of an adult able to sign a contract.

(Legion of Super-Heroes III #11, 12) - Superboy visited Bouncing Boy at Legion headquarters, saying he was thinking of rejoining the team. Bouncing Boy said that wasn’t going to happen, because the history books showed that when Superboy left active duty he never rejoined the team. Bouncing Boy told him about potential new recruits, focusing on Comet Queen, who Bouncing Boy personally recruited. The Science Police alerted the Legion to space-pirate raiders attacking freighters, and Superboy decided to join the Legion in responding since he was visiting. He bemoaned that 20th Century threats no longer challenged him. The Legion overwhelmed the pirates, whose ship then vanished into thin air. Dawnstar was frustrated that they left no trace behind for her to track and worried that when Brainiac 5 tinkered with her powers to increase them he’d made them faulty. Brainiac 5 assured her that wasn’t the case, and had a theory as to how they disappeared, calling in Phantom Girl to have him confirm it. The pirates reappeared and Phantom Girl phased into their ship before the pirates spotted the Legion and disappeared again. Within moments the ship reappeared and Phantom Girl had the the pirate leader, a native of Bgtzl like herself, in custody. The pirate ship had an amplifier that increased the Bgtzlian’s ability to turn intangible, a power related to Bgtzlians returning to their home dimension. The Legionnaires returned to Earth to vote for the new Legion leader, with Element Lad running against Brainiac 5.

(Action Comics I #226) - Metropolis archaeologists discovered the Petrified Spaceman, an ancient alien that had gone into torpor and was being displayed by sideshow exhibitor Barnum Bolton. Bolton got Superman to watch over the Spaceman so the scientists' specimen wouldn't be at risk for damage in exchange for donating money to the Daily Planet's clean-air fund. After years of research Lex used his super atom-smasher to create a synthetic kryptonite isotope. He loaded up a rifle with synthetic-K bullets, went to the exhibit, and shot at Superman. He missed, but the synthetic-K woke the alien, who went on a rampage, stealing glass throughout the city. Superman brought Lex to jail, but found that the Spaceman's powers countered his at every turn, and he escaped the city limits by becoming invisible. Perry sent Lois and Clark to cover the story, and when the Spaceman took Clatrk's glasses and Lois' glass crystal wristwatch without harming them, they knew he didn't mean to hurt anyone. Clark changed into Superman, and realized the confused alien was after ice, not glass, so he brought blocks of ice to cool him down, restoring his mind. The Spaceman was grateful, telling Superman he was an astronaut from Ice World, and the heat of Earth had left him in a daze as he desperately tried to cool himself. Superman returned him to his home world by constructing a spacecraft out of ice and hurling it into space, guided to Ice World by  his telescopic vision.

(Action Comics I #227) - Clark went to the Metropolis Art Museum to cover the examination of a famous painting with an x-ray machine to verify its' authenticity, but the machine broke while being used. As Superman he went to the dedication of a statue of General Van Sturtant, but his x-ray vision had gone out of control, and he burned a hole through the statue and burned up a condemned building before managing to shut his eyes. While blind he dug into the Earth and retrieved a quantity of lead, which his x-ray vision couldn't penetrate, and fashioned a pair of glasses so his vision would be contained, although he still couldn't see through the eyewear. Perry wanted Clark to cover the story of Superman's out of control powers, and Lois tried to prove he was Superman by having him read one of her columns to her. He took off his glasses at superspeed and used a lead mirror to read and memorize the article to foil her. Superman had a hard time doing his job blind, even with his other supersenses, but he overcame this obstacle by cooperating with the Metropolis police. They gave him a guide dog, and using a radio receiver and directions from police at the scene he was able to save a ship from an iceberg and foil a gang of robbers. A group of scientists figured out that the malfunctioning x-ray machine boosted Superman's vision, and he was able to discharge the excess radiation and cure himself by using his x-ray vision to blow a hole in an uninhabited planet. He gave his guide dog to a blind citizen of Metropolis, and was praised for showing the differently abled how he handled his handicap.

(Action Comics I #228) - Poisonous smog hit Metropolis hard, and Superman constructed a giant fan to drive it away from the city. Lois covered the story, and Superman said he'd decided to commemorate his career by building a Superman Museum. Digging up iron ore and a coal-seam he created his construction materials, and assembled the skyskraper that would house his museum by hand. Perry sent Lois and Jimmy to cover the museum opening, even though he thought Superman was getting full of himself even though Lois defended him. Superman gave the inaugural tour of the museum, recounting lost adventures of his past, including stopping Lex Luthor with a parabolic reflector and halting the rampage of mechanical mythological creatures that ran amok in Metropolis. Racketeer Jay Emery was hoping the museum would house dangerous weapons and technology, and when Superman told Lois the center of the building was a gigantic air shaft he presumed that it held the devices too dangerous to be on display. Lois was also determined to get a look at the secret shaft, and when she saw mementos being delivered to the museum she spotted a lead chest and hopped inside, only to be met by Emery, who was using the chest to sneak inside the museum himself. Superman was already in the shaft, which the Superman Museum was simply a cover for. Poisonous gas from the earth was leaking, and had caused the recent smog. He didn't want to cause a panic, so he'd built the museum as a cover. After venting the gas he saved Lois from Emery and revealed that he'd constructed the museum as modular units, and took it apart to create housing for Metropolis' underprivileged population.

(Action Comics I #229) - Superman went into space to smash an asteroid on a collision course with Earth, and astronomers witnessed his display and reported the news. Dr. John Haley went to the Daily Planet and warned Perry and Lois that the asteroid was composed of a poisonous element, and if Superman returned to Earth he'd risk destroying the human race. Perry flashed the warning to Superman on the Planet's electric news sign, and Superman resigned himself to being an exile. He refused to stop helping people, and orbited the planet looking for people needing his help. He saw a ship about to collide with an iceberg, so he turned an iron meteor into a mile-long lasso, and pulled the iceberg away, depositing it in a drought-stricken area of the Midwest to provide much needed water as it melted. Using moon rocks he scared off elephants stampeding towards a village in Asia and stopped a flood in Switzerland. Lois was heartbroken, but Perry worried that with Superman gone crooks would be planning a big heist. Lois started investigating, and a gang of criminals kidnapped her. They'd already kidnapped Haley; the man claiming that Superman could never return to Earth was one of their own in disguise. Their hq was lead-lined, so Superman couldn't see what they were up to from space, but he made a gigantic periscope from another iron meteor and uncovered their chicanery, saving Lois and Hale and rounding them up when he returned to his adopted planet.

(Action Comics I #230) - An undersea quake loosened a portion of Atlantis from the sea floor, and when Superman tried to push it back to the bottom he found his strength increased a hundred fold, and the effort caused a massive earthquake. Strange experiments in Atlantis imbued the land with the ability to grant superpowers to anyone who touched it. Superman dared not use his enhanced powers, and when he was called on to finish a Metropolis hospital he took the elevator up, pounded nails with a hammer instead of his fists, and when a gust of wind blew him off the building he used a parachute to land safely. Lois and other onlookers were convinced he'd lost his powers, and when word reached a criminal he planned to rob the Jeweler's Convention, believing Superman would be unable to stop him. Using his super intelligence Superman deduced the crook's escape route and where he'd be holed up, allowing the police to capture him. Seaman Bart Wellins came upon the fragment of Atlantis, and after gaining superpowers went on a crime spree. Superman chanced using his powers, but when he leapt at Bart he flew past him, almost colliding with the moon, and when he triwed to leap on Bart he missed, crashing through the ground and ending up on the opposite side of Earth. In a desperate gambit he went to the mid-Atlantic to recover a chunk of kryptonite he'd once disposed of, and he was so powerful that it dampened his powers but didn't kill him. The kryptonite drained Bart of his powers, and Superman's own enhanced abilities soon returned to normal levels. He used a huge pole to push the fragment of Atlantis down again while staying a safe distance away so it wouldn't increase his powers again.

(Action Comics I #231) - Clark accompanied Jimmy when he was summoned to the office of Prof. Z. Peabody, chief of Metropolis Archives. Peabody was researching the Kingdom of Vumania, and learned that Jimmy was a descendant of their last king, who'd died centuries ago. According to the kingdom's charter Jimmy could claim the throne if he slew a dragon, broke a wizard's spell, and saved a fair maiden while dressed as a knight. Peabody realized the tasks would be ceremonial, but he'd still have to carry them out, and suggested Superman as a reliable witness. Superman flew to Vumania, which had been reduced to a small uninhabited island after a flood, and felt bad that he'd have to break the bad news to Jimmy, who was dreaming of pomp and circumstance. Superman returned to Metropolis and witnessed a car striking Jimmy, who was mostly unharmed thanks to his rented armor, and he overheard the driver and accomplice saying they'd stop at nothing to keep him from the throne. Superman decided to play along with Jimmy's deeds to find out why the thugs were interested in a worthless island. Superman stopped the crooks from interfering while Jimmy lanced a dragon float in Chinatown, ruined a stage magician's trick, and saved a woman from being run over with a car. Jimmy was disappointed in his newly won kingdom, but Superman discovered the crooks were part of the Sea Gang, who operated from Vumania in an underground lair, and rounded them up.

(Action Comics I #254, 255) - Lex Luthor visited Smallville and came across an old newspaper story about Professor Dalton, who used a duplicator ray to create the Bizarro Superboy. Luthor stole Dalton’s plans for the duplicator ray to build his own, and showed off the ray to his lab assistant Vekko, bragging that he’d use it to destroy superman. Luthor posed as “Professor Clyde” and phoned up Perry White, telling him he’d come up with an antidote for kryptonite. Superman visited his lab, and “Clyde” had him stand in front of the duplicator way under the pretense of making him immune to kryptonite. The duplicator ray created Bizarro, an imperfect duplicate of superman with stony skin and a backwards mind. Luthor took off his disguise and ordered Bizarro to destroy Superman, but Bizarro realized he was a monstrosity, and was furious at Luthor for creating him. He grabbed Luthor and Vekko to take them to jail, and admitted to Superman that he didn’t know the difference between right and wrong and didn’t belong in the world. Superman decided he’d have to be destroyed, reasoning that it was morally correct because Bizarro was lifeless matter in human form, but first had to deal with a massive tidal wave causing havoc at sea. Bizarro turned over Luther and Vekko to the police, who were horrified by Bizarro. He tried to prove he was a hero by saving a plane from crashing, but the passengers ran away form him in fear when they were on the ground, and the distraught Bizarro decided to leave Metropolis. The army dropped bombs on Bizarro, but he was unharmed and told them he’d save them the trouble of destroying him by committing suicide. Jimmy Olsen and Lois Lane were following Bizarro in the Daily Planet news helicopter, and Lois snapped some pictures of Bizarro flying full speed into a mountainside. Bizarro was unharmed and upset at still being alive until he overheard Lois fawning over her shots of him, and misunderstood what she was saying, thinking she’d fallen in love with him. Bizarro built a ramshackle house on a remote island, declared it a palace, and flew Lois Lane there, saying it was a house they could live in after they got married. Lois told him the only man she loved was superman, and Bizarro reasoned that if he was handsome like superman Lois would marry him. Bizarro stole the duplicator ray from police headquarters, and used it on himself, creating New Bizarro, who still had an imperfect mind like him, but was handsome like New Bizarro proposed to Lois, who failed to notice his backward speech, and she embraced and kissed him. Superman caught up with the Bizarros, and Bizarro said he didn’t want superman interfering in his plan, and presented him with a giant boulder of green kryptonite he’d found on the island. Lois realized something was wrong after listening to New Bizarro talk more, and he admitted he was a Bizarro, but bragged about how attractive he was and said Lois would be lucky to be hitched to him. Lois didn’t appreciate how conceited New Bizarro was, and said she even preferred the original Bizarro over him, causing New Bizarro to start mocking his creator for being so ugly. The infuriated Bizarro attacked New Bizarro, and their battle led to a naval testing ground, where they started hurling torpedoes at each other. Bizarro returned to the island and smashed the kryptonite boulder into dust, asking Superman to help him defeat New Bizarro. The kryptonite dust was carried away by the wind, and New Bizarro inhaled it. Unlike Bizarro he had the same vulnerability to kryptonite that Superman had, and he disintegrated. Superman flew Lois back to Metropolis and Bizarro flew to Pluto, plucking a giant rainbow flower to give to Lois, hoping gifts could win her over. When he presented his gift the flower started shooting out seeds, wrecking Lois apartment, and she told Bizarro she never wanted to see him again. Bizarro, having dim memories of Superman’s life, decided to dress up like Clark Kent, hoping no one at the Daily Planet could tell the difference so he could still be near Lois. He went to the Daily Planet, and Superman used his heat vision to burn off his civilian clothes, fearing Bizarro would give away his secret identity. Bizarro decided that if he couldn’t marry Lois than no one could. Bizarro flew her back to his island said he’d fight Superman, and if she changed her mind about marrying him she could wave a white flag. Bizarro and Superman fought on the Sargasso Reef, firing cannon balls at each other until Lois waved the white flag. Superman saw who he thought was Lois embrace Bizarro and got choked up saying that he intended to marry her one day. This “Lois” was actually a Bizarro Lois Lane that Lois created by turning the duplicator ray on herself so Bizarro would have a companion. Bizarro and Bizarro Lois agreed that there was no place for them on Earth so Bizarro flew her into space, saying they’d find a world to live on in another solar system. Lois asked Superman if he meant what he said about marring her, and he replied that he meant he might consider it in the future, but not right now.

(Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane #1) - Lois disguised herself as famous French actress Lois LaFlamme, who was visiting Metropolis, to get an interview with the Rutavian ambassador, who normally avoided the press. She charmed the ambassador at a party, but Superman was present performing parlor tricks in gratitude for the ambassador's charity work, and decided to teach Lois a lesson about using underhanded tricks to get a story. He had Jimmy Olsen pose as LaFlamme's suitor Count Armand, and he challenged Superman to a duel after Lois made it clear how much she loved Superman. Lois tried to stop it, bbut could only watch on as "Armand" shot Superman, and the bullet bounced back, hitting the Count. Thinking the Count dead she broke down and told Superman she'd never be deceptive in getting a story again, and Superman revealed his ruse.

(Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane #1) - Lois overheard Daily Planet advice columnist Mr. Romance tell a woman that the way to a man's heart was through his stomach, so she decided to win Superman over with her cooking. She became chef at Dick's Diner when Dick Morgan had to close it down to recover from surgery, and sold the idea to Perry White as a human interest piece. She renamed everything on the menu 'Super' and convinced Superman to make an appearance to help out Dick Morgan, but every time Superman sat down to eat he was called away for an emergency, or in the course of stopping long-distance disasters he ruined her cooking. She kept the Diner in business, and just before Dick Morgan returned Superman had a bowl of alphabet soup and spelled out 'I Love You' with the pasta.

(Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane #1) -Lois covered the opening of the Museum of Superstition, and broke a mirror in front of a portrait of the witch Mad Molly. The curator told her she'd turn into a witch for seven years because of what she'd done, but she blew him off. She then visited famous biologist Professor Jason, and accidentally inhaled an old age potion. Every night she turned into a withered hag, and believed it was because of mad Molly's curse. Superman recognized her on the street, and retraced her steps, realizing that she thought she was a with and that the real culprit was Jason's solution. He didn't want to jar her senses, so he used his superpowers to make Lois think she had spellcasting abilities, which she used to get news stories. She was going to use her 'powers' to uncover Superman's identity, but realized she could never use an unfair advantage on her love. Superman finally revealed the truth to her as the aging serum wore off.

(Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen #29) - Jimmy was offered a book deal for a fictional story about him and Superman. He kept writing himself into a corner, with the world ending in one story, not knowing Superman’s real identity to conclude another. Superman regularly checked in on his writing, and nixed an idea for a story where all the legendary strongmen such as Atlas and Hercules were actually Superman because he pointed out that Delilah could never cut Samson-Superman’s super-tough hair. Jimmy finally dreamed up the perfect book, The Super Mystery, but lost the details when he woke up. Superman took him one year into the future and picked up a copy of The Super Mystery, which had become a best-seller. Back in their own time Jimmy copied the book and handed it to his publisher.

(Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen #29) - Krypto returned to Earth after years of romping in space, and Superman gave him to Jimmy as a pet. Unfortunately old age slowed Krypto down physically and mentally, and he destroyed a good deal of city property when Jimmy tried to have him fight crime. Superman kept threatening to take him away from Jimmy if he couldn’t behave, and the last straw was when Krypto stole a dinosaur bone from a museum. The city council took Krypto away from Jimmy, deeming him a public menace. Jimmy impassionately spoke at the hearing, going over Krypto’s old heroic exploits, and the judge granted that Krypto could be returned to Superman. Superman brought Krypto to a valley surrounded by kryptonite hills. Superman knew that the kryptonite infused with mineral water acted as a fountain of youth, restoring Krypto to his prime. The water would have the same effect on humans, but Superman never revealed the secret, fearing crooks would use the kryptonite hills against him. Jimmy and Krypto got one last chance to play, but Krypto returned to the stars for another romp. Superman promised that if Krypto ever returned he’d remember Jimmy’s loyalty.

(Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen #29) - Jimmy found the hq of Doctor X, an underworld figure who duplicated the feats of sorcerers with science. Doctor X had died that day in a plane crash, and the police raided his building, forcing Jimmy to grab a pair of spectacles and flee. The spectacles showed visions of the future, and they all involved Superman, since Doctor X was worried about being caught by the Man of Steel. Jimmy foiled a criminal’s attempt to use kryptonite on Superman and kept a manhole worker from accidentally uncovering Superman’s identity. He saw a vision of himself drowning and tried to avoid his fate by avoiding Superman, but later realized that he was acting in a film, pretending to drown in a lake for a camp safety video. Jimmy lost his future glasses flying around with Superman.

(Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane #2) - Superman flew Lois to her old college, where she met Polly Smith, who was crying because no sorority would accept her because she never had a date. Lois had a plan to make her popular, having Superman poise as her boyfriend, and he agreed because Polly had always contributed to his favorite charities. The sorority sisters were jealous, but skeptical, so Superman carved a portrait of Polly in the mountainside and created a space satellite he named after her. Finally he took her to a dance and proposed, but she 'jilted' him. Sorority sister Vera Stevens lived next door to Polly, and had overheard and taped Superman talking about the ruse. As she was about to play the record for her sisters Superman burned off the dialogue with his heat vision and used super ventriloquism to make it seem like Vera was talking badly about her sisters.

(Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane #2) - Mammoth Studios began filming "The Life of Superman" in Metropolis, and Superman agreed to play himself because half the earnings would go to charity. The staff of the Daily Planet were offered bit parts, and all of them passed a screen test except Lois Lane, who got nervous. Director Daryl Zorne made her a prop girl, and had her part played by lookalike Gilda Glamarr, and Lois seethed with jealousy. A number of near-fatal accidents plagued the set, and it seemed as though Lois was behind them, so Zorne told her to leave the set and Superman told her he never wanted to see her again. It was actually all a ploy by Superman, who showed Zorne footage of Lopis being jealous, angry and heartbroken; convincing Zorne she could indeed become a good actress.

(Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane #2) - Perry received papers that exposed a Mexican smuggling ring, and hid the papers in the Daily Planet safe. The criminals behind the ring had Daily Planet elevator operator Dan Jones pose as Superman to win over Lois Lane and gain access to Perry's safe, but she realized it was a ruse and the police arrested the gang. Superman arrived after the fact to see if he could help and Lois told him not everything was about him.

(Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen #30) - Jimmy felt the sting of being the only orphan at the Daily Planet Father and Son’s Picnic. Superman told Jimmy he’d always thought of him as a son, and was making it official by adopting him for a 30 day trial period. After winning all the games at the ppicnic for them Superman rented a house for them and took a tour of the Fortress of Solitude. His latest trophy was a mural showing a solar system he created to give a hoime to alien refugees whose sun had exploded. In his honor they named everything after him, from Superman’s Planet to Superman’s Sun. Superman’s Super-Calculator Machine made one of its faultless predictions, that Superman would destroy his son. The only out he saw was to convince Jimmy he’d be an awful father. He banned Jimmy from the Fortress, told him he wasn’t doing his share of cleaning around the house, and when Jimmy got him a robe for Father’s Day Superman torched it with his heat vision. Jimmy voided the trial adoption, and Superman revealed why he had to act the way he did. Jimmy figured out that the calculator was referring to Superman’s Sun, not him. The sun had burned out, so Superman smashed it and replaced it with a younger star.

(Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen #30) - Jimmy was working on a book exposing the Bedone Gang, and Perry advised him to keep the manuscript at the Planet for safety. Jimmy was convinced the Bedone Gang would never try to steal from him because of his signal watch, but the Bedone Gang used science fiction props to convince Jimmy there were a series of super-emergencies, for alien ant invades, to a timewarp causing a Brontosaurus and cavemen to appear. Jimmy’s constant signaling of Superman for false alarms made the Man of Steel start ignoring the watch. Superman was convinced Jimmy was hallucinating or dreaming, and warned him to stop interrupting his daily patrols and charity performances. The Bedones broke into Jimmy’s apartment and forced him to hand over the manuscript, but Jimmy jammed his watch and hid it in the sheets, so that the constant buzzing forced to Superman to stop ignoring it. Superman caught the Bedone Gang and made amends with Jimmy.

(Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen #30) - Clark found underworld surgeon “Scalpel” Logan’s coded list of clients, so Logan enlisted “Houdini” Watson to get the document back. Watson had plastic surgery to look like Superman, and convinced Jimmy Olsen that Clark Kent had sold out to the underworld, and was planning on going after Superman with kryptonite. Jimmy had a hard time believing it, but the crooks planted luminescent powder in Clark’s coat that looked like kryptonite, and they hid a fake chunk of kryptonite in a cake supposedly sent to Superman by Clark. Jimmy stole the client list from Clark’s desk, believing it was proof that Clark was a criminal, and after handing it over to the crooks they planned to eliminate him. They also picked up Clark and prepared to drive out of the city, but Clark secretly used his heat-vision to open a hole in their gas tank. They ran out of gas at an intersection, and a police officer threatened to tick them for holding up traffic. Watson tried his Superman routine on the officer, but he easily spotted him as a fake and arrested him.

(Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen #31) - Superman brought Jimmy a lockbox he’d found floating in space, and told him to take some pictures of the contents. Jimmy noticed a glowing green flask, and worried that it was liquid kryptonite. In his attempt to dispose of it he shattered the vial, and the chemical spilled on him, giving him fantastic stretching powers. Jimmy thought of himself as a freak, and was ashamed to be seen as a rubber man by huis coworkers, so he took a job in a sideshow as Elastic Lad. The crook “Silky” Smith recognized him and learned that Jimmy was desperately searching for a cure. Smith disguised himself as the famous Professor Bolton and told Jimmy to come to his lab. On the way he had Jimmy use his powers to unwittingly aid him in an attempt on the D.A.’s life and a bank robbery. Superman foiled the attempts, but when Smith got Jimmy to let him into Bolton’s lab he used kryptonite, which Bolton was trying to find a cure for, on the Man of Steel. Jimmy saved the day, and the altered kryptonite took away his Elastic Lad powers.

(Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen #31) - Perry had Jimmy do a feature on historical hat collector Mr. Smith, but the old rake played a joke on Jimmy, convincing him he’d gain the abilities of the personalities the hats originally belonged to if he tried them on. Superman had to keep Jimmy from killing himself playing hero after he put on Robin Hood’s cap and forced a lion back into his cage through a lucky shot. Jimmy put on the hat of Fleming, the English constable who always got his man, and went after the mobster Duke Maddox. Superman kept him safe, and convinced Mr. Smith to call him and tell him the ‘magic’ of the hats had worn off after a single use.

(Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen #31) - Jimmy hit Perry up for a raise, but was turned down because of his spate of misprint errors. Jimmy was determined to teach Perry that he should be grateful for his services, so he volunteered to be put into a cryogenic freeze for the good of science. In reality Jimmy put a dummy in the block of ice and assumed the new identity of Gilbert Knox and got a job at the Planet, planning to show Perry what a bad reporter really was. Superman was wise to him, and wanted to teach Jimmy a lesson. Every time ‘Gilbert’ called on Superman for wild goose chases Superman found a way to perform heroic acts and make Gilbert a star reporter. Gilbert was promoted and given his own office, so he decided to abandon his old life as Jimmy Olsen. Superman wasn’t done giving him a lesson on not hoaxing people, and melted the ice containing the Jimmy dummy, forcing Jimmy to return to his old life so no one would know of his duplicity. Jimmy was rehired by Perry, but had to suffer through lectures about how whe paled in comparison to Gilbert.

(Justice League of America I #1) - Flash came upon Saranna and Jasonar, two refugees from Kalanor. Their home dimension had been conquered by the tyrant Despero, and Jasonar had perfected an anti-weapon device to disable Despero's arsenal. Flash summoned the JLofA and they prepared to use Jasonar's dimensional traveler to go to Kalanor, but Despero had ambushed Superman and the JLofA and held them in stasis in their hq. He planned to banish them to other dimensions, but couldn't affect Flash, who'd been exposed to the radiation of the dimensional traveler that made him immune to Despero's teleport beam. He challenged Flash to a variation of chess, using the JlLofA as pawns. he rigged the game with his mental powers, and each time Flash lost a pawn, a leaguer was teleported to another dimension. Flash lost and entered a dimensional traveler to the world of Narx. Wonder Woman and Superman were sent to a dawn world full of dinosaurs, but managed to overcome the beasts. The rest of the planets the JLofA were on were targeted for destruction by Despero, but the League saved the planets and returned to Earth. Despero caught up with Jasonar and was about to take his anti-weapon device, when Snapper, who'd stowed away on Despero's traveler turned the anti-weapon on him, sapping his energy. The League allowed Jasonar to take Despero back to Kalanor as a prisoner.

(Justice League of America I #4) - Superman and the JLofA nominated Green Arrow as their new member when they received a message from the alien Carthan, who'd kidnapped the Arrow. he told the team he'd placed three engines of destruction around the world, and that it was up to them to disable them and free Arrow. Carthan was only posing as a villain, the tyrant Xandor had exiled him from his planet Dryanna, and the engines prevented him from leaving Earth. The JLofA disabled the engines while Superman and Batman freed Arrow, but Carthan imprisoned the team in a hollow diamond so he could explain that he was not a villain. Batman, who wasn't trapped, knocked him into the control panel of his ship, and Carthan couldn't dissipate the diamond. he showed Green Arrow the stress point of the diamond, and the archer used his skills to shatter the prison with a diamond-tipped arrow.

(Justice League of America I #5) - Superman was at a JLofA meeting where the League accused Green Arrow of being a traitor. He seemingly foiled the League's attempts to capture the gang of Getaway Mastermind, Electric Man, Puppet Master, King Clock, Professor Menace and Captain Cold, shooting explosive arrows just as the League was about to be victorious. Superman and Batman decided to judge the case, and Arrow, who'd captured the villains on his own, exonerated himself by explaining that in one encounter the villains had been explosive robotic duplicates that he set off before the JLofA got to close, and in another battle he activated an explosive force field on the villains plane that would have killed his teammates if they came in contact with it. Arrow then exposed "Green Lantern" as Dr. Destiny, who was impersonating the hero to destroy the League, and they took him to the police. They walked into Destiny's trap, as he had a ship nearby that hit the League with an anti-gravity and will-deadener ray. He prepared to put them aboard a rocket ship, and with their wills gone they'd be helplessly floating in space forever. His prisoner Green Lantern escaped, because using the will-deadener on the League sapped power from the ray aimed at him. The League apprehended Destiny and closed the case.

(Justice League of America I #15) - Stone giant Untouchable Aliens stole military weapons and tried to eradicate Brasilia, Tokyo and Central City, but were foiled by Superman and the JLofA. Green Lantern probed their minds and brought the League to their world, an Earth separated from ours because it existed one minute into the future. The Aliens set off a cobalt bomb at the same time our Earth tested a nuclear bomb, weakening the barrier between world. The Alien's cities were going to merge with the three Earth cities they tried to destroy, because two objects occupying the same time and space would be disastrous. They could not move their own cities because the cities were rigged to explode if tampered with, a failsafe against invasion. Green Lantern used his ring to completely separate the Alien's Earth from ours, preventing catastrophe.

(Superman I #169) - Mr. Mxyzptlk was loitering outside the 5th Dimensional town hall when the mayor scolded him for his cruel pranks. The mayor tried to start his car, but it fell apart thanks to a spell by Mxy, who laughed so hard that he got lockjaw. Mxy thought it would be an excellent time to pester Superman because he couldn’t say his name backwards if he tried. Superman was in his fortress inspecting his latest gifts from other worlds, a singing plant and a telepathic device from the planet Brrym. He changed into Clark Kent and went to work at the Daily Planet, but Jimmy insisted he take a coffee break and watch television with him. A perfume commercial came on, and the woman in the commercial sprayed perfume through the TV into Jimmy’s eyes. The channel flipped to a western, and a gunfighter shot bullets through the TV that Jimmy was barely able to duck, and Superman knew that these hijinks had to be the work of Mr. Mxyzptlk. Superman caught up with Mxy at a baseball stadium where he replaced the helium in the balloons fans were holding with to super-helium, causing them to drift into the air until Superman saved them. Mxy then went to the Superman Museum, targeting a statue of Superman holding up the planet Krypton and changing Krypton into a giant pumpkin, infuriating Superman. Mxy used sign language to brag to Superman that he couldn’t say his name. Superman put on a charity performance at a circus, engaging with fierce animals, but Mxy made him a laughingstock by changing the lion he was facing into a kitten. Superman thought back to the last time he’d faced Mxy, when he’d put an alarm in his hat set to buzz when he started to say his name, and Superman beat him by frying the alarm making the overconfident Mxy an easy target for tricking into saying his name backwards. Superman had a brainstorm, and disguised himself as a haberdasher, offering Mxy a more stylish hat., Mxy tried it on, but saw through his trick. He signed out his name backwards, and was shocked when his hat spoke “Kltpzyxm” in his voice. Superman had putt the telepathic device he’d gotten from Brrym in the hat, and it had broadcasted Mxy’s thought, so he was sent back to the 5th Dimension.

(Superman I #169) - Teenage Ned Barnes grew up idolizing Superboy, and one day his house caught fire and Superboy rescued him, but his face was horribly burned. A brilliant plastic surgeon offered to repair his face and Ned asked him to make him look just like his hero Superboy. Ned Barnes was a weakling and suffered years of bullying because of his resemblance to Superboy without any of his strength. Ned grew to hate Superboy, and vowed revenge on him. As an adult Ned turned to crime, and mobsters Big Tony and Gunner hired him for a job because of his resemblance to superman. Dressed as Superman he entered a top-secret manufacturing plant and took pictures of a prototype spaceship, claiming he was on a mission from the NSA. His ruse was uncovered and he went into hiding. As fate would have it he ran into Sally Selwyn, who was once in a romantic relationship with Clark Kent, who she knew as Jim White. She thought Jim had drowned and was overjoyed that her long lost love had returned. She imagined that Jim survived his fall into the water and suffered from amnesia, but hoped she could resume their relationship. Ned played along, but hoped to get out of town once the heat died down, and Sally soon noticed that her paramour was a lot rougher around the edges than she’d remembered. The real Clark Kent learned about Ned Barnes crime over the news wire and asked Perry White if he could cover the story. Perry agreed, and told him to go to the Ace Ranch and buy a horse. Perry had just lost a bet with Jimmy Olsen after picking Daily Planet in a horse race, and wanted his own horse named after his newspaper that would be a winner. Clark found a stallion that fit the bill, but when Sally, whose father owned the ranch, spotted him she thought he was Jim and embraced and kissed him. Clark’s memory of his time with Sally suddenly came back, and he was overwhelmed that a woman loved him for himself, as Clark Kent and not Superman. Clark tumbled on to the fact that she thought he was Ned, and decided to sleep on the matter. In the morning Clark decided that he was in love and wanted to marry Sally, which he’d do right after bringing Ned to justice. Ned started to feel bad about fooling sally because he could see what a good heart she had, but his reverie was interrupted by big Tony and Gunner. They thought he’d skipped out on them and decided to marry and go straight. Gunner aimed his rifle at sally, who was in the distance, saying he’d kill her to get back at Ned. Ned fought them, and they all tumbled down a cliff. Tony and gunner died instantly, but Ned clung to life. Superman found him, and his dying wish was that superman not tell Sally that Ned was really a criminal because he didn’t want to break her heart. Superman was in shock, and came to the realization that if he married Sally crooks like Gunner and Tony would come after her all the time, so he couldn’t give in and marry her. Superman met Sally and told her her love sacrificed his life to save her. Sally broke down in tears in her father’s arms, saying that it seemed like a cruel joke that she’d been reunited with the man of her dreams only for him to die again. She said she’d always keep the love she had for Jim White in her heart.

(Superman I #169) - Bizarro #1 brought a legion of Bizarro Supermen to Earth, telling Superman they were going to prove how much they liked him by destroying the planet, but proceeded to run away when they spotted a sparrow because it was not able to harm them. Superman decided the Bizarros backward thinking didn’t make them a threat to consider seriously, and figured they might provide some laughs for him while they were on Earth. The Bizarros spotted superman fix the support structures of a bridge so they decided to show him they could fix things worse than he could. The Bizarros put arms on the Venus de Milo, sealed the crack in the Liberty Bell, and straightened the Leaning Tower of Pisa. They spotted Superman yelling at a boy for being a litterbug, so they grabbed up garbage dump trucks and flew them around Metropolis, scattering waste. Perry White told Lois and Clark to get the Daily Planet payroll, and on their way back they were ambushed by armed criminals, and Clark couldn’t leap into action, fearing revealing his identity in front of Lois. Bizarro #1 made good his promise to destroy the planet by smashing the Daily Planet’s globe before flying off into space, and letters from the Planet sign fell onto the crooks, knocking them out and inadvertently saving the day for Clark.

(Justice League of America I #34) - Superman and the JLofA had dreams where parts of their teammates costumes attached themselves to them and gave them their teammates powers and weaknesses. In their dreams they overcame this and defeated a giant Italian statue, giant seashells and Joker and Chac. When they woke these dream adversaries became real, as did the objects that handicapped them. Their enemies had learned from their dream defeat, but by switching up tactics the league defeated them. They reasoned that Dr. Destiny was involved, and although he was in jail he'd built a Materioptikon in his dreams. The League had him sent to a psychiatrist in hopes of removing his dream powers.

(Action Comics I #378) - Superman constructed a space station in orbit, saving on the tremendous costs to rocket the building materials into space, and advancing the space program by a decade. As soon as he completed construction a bolt of energy destroyed the space station, and Superman was confronted by a being claiming to be Satan. Satan threatened to destroy Superman unless he agreed to become evil and work with him. Superman refused, and they clashed until Superman made a tactical retreat, flying to his Fortress of Solitude. Satan followed close behind, and transported Superman to a hellish cave, telling him he planned to use Superman to lead an army that would conquer the world, creating a satanic empire. “Superman” collapsed and fell to pieces, turning out to be a Superman Robot that the hero sent to distract Satan so he could get a jump on the villain. Satan turned his trident on Superman, blasting him with energy, but he couldn’t bring himself to finish off Superman. Satan was actually Rol-Nac, who’d been kidnapped by the Marauder, a criminal Superman once sent to space jail years ago. The Marauder brainwashed Rol-Nac into believing he was Satan, and equipped him with his fantastic weaponry to destroy him. Rol-Nac revealed that he was Superman’s godfather. He was a space refuge fleeing the tyranny of his own planet who’d visited Krypton and saved Jor-El from one of his early experimental rockets that almost crashed on his lab. Rol-Nac said Jor-El and Lara were two of the finest people he ever met, and Superman reminded him of them. Superman invited him to stay in the Fortress of Solitude and tell him all about his memories of his parents.

(Action Comics I #379) - Clark Kent covered the funeral of noted occultist Dr. Phantas. Phantas’ lawyer Mark Sharpe showed Clark around Phantas’ mansion, and said no one knew where Phantas came from or how he came by his supernatural powers, and Clark thought the lawyer’s stories were poppycock. At the funeral a tape and projection of Phantas was played, saying he forbade anyone to open his coffin, lest they bring a horrible curse on themselves. Sharpe needed to open the coffin to find out who Phantas’ heirs were, so Clark said he’d get his friend Superman to do it, and changed outside. Superman opened the casket, only for Phantas to rise up and tell him Clark Kent and all his friends would pay dearly for activating his curse before vanishing. Superman was convinced there had to be a logical explanation, but when his story ran Perry White played up the curse angle. That afternoon Lois alerted Clark that his friend Ed Carver had died under mysterious circumstances, and Jimmy Olsen was convinced it was the curse, but Lois chalked it up to coincidence. Reporter Steve Fallon, who Clark knew, died when a liquid oxygen truck turned over on the highway and the liquid froze him to death. Lois now agreed with Jimmy that something was off, and Perry sent Clark home for the sake of staff morale. Three more of Clark’s reporter friends died and Clark found himself ostracized from the Metropolis press club. Clark was set to appear on Greet The Press, but the show was cancelled when his friend Ned Masters was electrocuted by his microphone. Clark realized that all the reporters to die had been with him on a recent plane flight from Washington, and disguised himself as Mark Durbin, the last reporter besides himself from the flight that was still alive, and hid with Mark win a bank vault. A ghostly Phantas, calling himself the Eliminator passed through the vault’s walls and when “Mark” asked him why he was trying to kill him Phantas thought he was feigning ignorance. Phantas recounted how the reporters were all actually renegade murderers from Rhadmath fleeing justice. They’d used Rhadmanthian transverter technology to assume the forms and memories of the reporters aboard the plane from Washington, teleporting them into their spaceship and taking their place. They could not target Clark because of his Kryptonian physiology. Phantas was the Eliminator of Rhadmath, taked with executing the criminals, and traveled to Earth to pursue them, setting up the ruse of an occultist and his curse on Clark Kent to keep secret the involvement of Rhadmanthians on Earth. Phantas struck “Mark” with a bolt of energy, disintegrating his disguise, but the beam ricocheted and killed the real Durbin. Phantas freed the real reporters from the Rhadmanthians spaceship, and told Superman not to judge him, because as Eliminator he was tasked with enforcing the law of his homeworld.

(Action Comics I #380, 381) - The Superman Revenge Squad sent the Liquidators, Dorx and Krit, to Earth with a detailed plan to destroy Superman’s reputation. Superman returned from a mission in space, and the Liquidators surreptitiously exposed him to artificial red kryptonite that gave him a conscience syndrome that would make him prone to feeling guilty for things he had not done. The Liquidators destroyed the Iwo Jima memorial and replaced it with a Superman statue, and Krit, wearing robotic armor, smashed into the Metropolis Mint, melted a number of coins and engraved Superman’s likeness on others. The authorities were convinced that some evil doer was trying to frame Superman and ruin his reputation, but Superman’s conscience syndrome made him wonder if he was having blackouts and committing crimes. Superman suspected that if he was responsible his behavior could be explained by exposure to red kryptonite, and went to the Fortress of Solitude to use his newly created red k detector. Dorx, disguised as Supergirl, met him there, and offered to help him use the detector. Superman stepped inside the detector, which ran an electrical current over him that would turn him red if he’d been exposed to red k, and although the test revealed his exposure Dorx lied to him, saying he hadn’t changed color. Dorx suggested he chain himself up before going to sleep, and if he broke the chains in his sleep he’d know he was committing crimes after falling unconscious. She also poured chemicals on the chains that would shatter them before Superman woke, and after rejoining Krit they destroyed Mt. Rushmore, then carving Superman’s image into the mountain. Superman was convinced that he was guilty, and had a criminal superego that was surfacing. He went to the Daily Planet, typed out a number of stories in which he confessed to the Liquidator’s crimes, and gave his confession to Perry, Lois and Jimmy, who told him they believed he was innocent. Superman returned to the Fortress and retrieved his box containing gold kryptonite, which would forever remove his super powers, deciding that was preferable to abusing his great power to cause harm. News stories popped up on Superman’s satellite television screens, and he noticed how fuzzy the picture was. Examining the Telstar satellite that relayed television to the Fortress he realized someone had placed artificial red k inside it. Superman came up with a plan to catch the perpetrators and put back the gold k before smashing the door to the Fortress and flying to the U.N. ready to stand trial for his crimes. The Liquidators watched him on their remote viewscreen do everything in his power to make the evidence against him fit. Noticing the Fortress was accessible they went inside to raid it and started bragging about how they’d framed Superman. Superman had the Fortress bugged, and their confession was broadcast to the U.N., clearing Superman’s name. The Liquidators, realizing they were exposed, fled in their spaceship. Superman allowed them to escape, knowing the penalty for failing a Revenge Squad mission was to be put into lifelong slavery by the Squad.

(Action Comics I #382) - Clark Kent wrote an obituary for his friend Mr. Presto, a world famous magician who’d left his chest of magic tricks to Clark. Clark noticed the balloons Lois was going to bring to the children’s hospital were floating against the ceiling, and flew up to retrieve them, knowing no one would see him. He returned them to Lois, who was suspicious as to how he got them down, once again accusing him of being Superman. He said he’d used Presto’s magic wand, and when Lois demanded to see another trick Clark wove the wand, and woke a sleeping Perry White, who was lifted off his office couch. Clark had actually used his x-ray vision to create a negative magnetism in the couch springs, which repelled Perry, who had a metal cigar case in his coat. Perry was infuriated, and fired Clark. Clark told Lois he was inspired to take Presto’s tricks and start a career as a stage magician. She thought it was a foolish career change, but wished him luck anyway. Kento the Great showed up at a talent agency, and after foiling a robbery of the agency the grateful talent agent got him a number of lucrative bookings where Kento used his superpowers to feign magic tricks. Jimmy Olsen attended the shows and after writing a number of glowing reviews in the Daily Planet Perry fired him for giving Kento free publicity. Kento hired Jimmy as his magician’s assistant, portraying Samson, the Might a “magic puppet” who could perform feats of strength. Criminal Rogan and his gang stole Samson, hoping to use the puppet to dig the sky-gem, a carbonized satellite that passed through a comet and turned into a giant diamond, out of the mountain it crashed into. After realizing Samson was Jimmy Olsen in a costume, returned to find Kento and learn his secrets. Kento was aware of Rogan because of his x-ray vision, and constructed a Superman puppet, using ventriloquism to make it appear alive. Rogan hit Kento with a blackjack, and Kento pretended to be knocked out, but when they drove off with the Superman puppet he disguised himself as the puppet and used his superspeed to take its’ place without the crooks noticing. After retrieving the sky-gem he dropped the act and arrested the criminals. When Perry learned that Superman had given Clark and Jimmy the exclusive rights to the sky-gem story he hired them both back, but Clark mused that he might one day take up stage magic again.

(Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #129) - Superman brought Jimmy's dad to stay with him while his estate was being remodeled. He presented Jimmy with half a medallion he got from the Mayans and told him the story of its original owner, a South American Indian king from 2,000 years ago who had superpowers. When he died his children split the medallion in two so neither would have its power, and one man founded the Mayan empire, while the other founded the Incan empire. Jimmy revealed that he had the other half of the medallion, given to him by Professor Lang. Superman used his  heat-vision to fuse the medallion, and when Jimmy grabbed it he gained the powers of flight, lightning-vision and the ability to generate a forcefield. As Ultra-Olsen he prevented disasters until crooks Gripper and Dapper kidnapped his dad and demanded he rob for them if he wanted him back. Jimmy was forced to go on a crime-spree, and when Superman tried to stop him he found he couldn’t touch Ultra-Olsen. Jimmy hinted that his powers would soon fade, because they were recharged only when kinetic energy was directed against him. When his powers ran out Superman tracked down Gripper and Dapper, using the signal-watch Jimmy had hidden in with the stolen goods he'd delivered to them. Superman reuinted Jimmy and his dad, and had all charges against Olsen dropped.

(Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #129) - Jimmy found the mystic pen of prophecy in the street, washed away from the museum where it belonged by fire hoses during a blaze. When his typewriter broke he used the pen to try to finish a story about criminal informant "Rook": Carney, but the pen took over and forced him to write the truth, that Carney was trapped in a sub after having fled his old compatriots. Superman brought Carney to the F.B.I. and Jimmy found that every time he put his mind to solving a mystery the pen did it for him. Superman gave it a go, and it forced him to tell the story of his secret identity. With some quick thinking he added a line at the end saying it was all a joke before Jimmy could read it. Superman spilled the rest of the ink and found a note in the pen’s box that revealed its history as formerly belonging to Edgar Allan Poe. Jimmy regretted not having any more ink to solve mysteries, but Superman was just glad his secret identity was safe.

(Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #130) - Jimmy showed Superman the mini-computer he built, the J.O. and it predicted that something important was going to happen in the Fortress of Solitude. Superman took Jimmy to his base before he had to leave for a space mission, but while he was gone the J.O., actually Brainiac’s reassembled computer-circuits, made his move. Brainiac used the tele-mento ray to take over one of Superman's robots, who flew to the fortress and feigned death throes, claiming to have been hit by a kryptonite meteor. Jimmy implanted the J.O. inside his 'friend' to save him. The robot, now calling himself Computer-Man pretended to rage at Jimmy for turning him into a freak, and was prepared to destroy Kandor. Brainiac wanted to break Jimmy's spirit and ruin Superman's reputation at the same time. Jimmy tried to appeal to him by playing the Kryptonian national anthem, and realized there was something wrong when he didn't recognize it. The Superman Emergency Squad took down Computer-Man and disassembled Brainiac's computer circuits.

(Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #130) - Perry, Clark and Lois watched the Flying Mercurys, the newsies spreading the word about the new Metropolis paper the Morning Mercury. Perry complained that it was a cheap rag, but really was concerned about the competition, and sent his people off to get stories. Clark soon found out that the Mercury was a criminal front, but Jimmy Olsen, who was impersonating Robin in an attempt to show that anyone could be the teen wonder with the right gadgets, was also investigating. The Flying Mercurys almost crushed Jimmy in their printing press before Superman saved him and rounded up the gang. Jimmy had to admit to Robin that his attempts at being him failed, and that he was a 'teen blunder.'

(Forever People I #1) - Clark interviewed boxer Rocky and found he had an inferiority complex even though he was a champion, because he thought his achievements couldn't measure up to Superman. Clark learned about the New Gods, and suddenly feeling like an outsider among humanity, was interested in them and Supertown, home of the Forever People. Superman aided the Forever People in locating Darkseid's Intergang hq where the kidnapped Forever Person Beautiful Dreamer was being kept. The Forever People and Superman fought off Darkseid's Gravi-Guards, and Darkseid found that Dreamer's unique mind would not submit to him to translate the anti-life equation, so he freed her. Superman asked to use the Forever People's boom tube to visit Supertown, but they told him that Darkseid was bringing his war against the New Gods to Earth, and he was needed there.

(Justice League of America I #117) - The Equalizer infected Thanagar with microbes that made everyone average, with no one smarter, stronger or more capable than anyone else. Hawkman found he no longer had the power to be a law enforcement agent, and pursued the Equalizer, who was heading towards Earth, in his Thanagarian ship. Hawkman knew he’d need help, so he contacted Superman and the JlofA, and they met him on Mars. The Equalizer’s microbes averaged out the JlofA’s powers, and let Hawkman share in some of them. He didn’t have time to explain his situation, and the JlofA were baffled and thought their loss of powers were an attack by their former ally. Hawkman managed to defeat them, and left them on Mars while he continued to chase the Equalizer. The League focused their reduced willpower on Green Lantern’s ring, allowing them to catch up to Hawkman, who was at a standstill with the Equalizer. After Hawkman explained the situation the League aided him, but the Equalizer countered any attack they mustered. They realized that he also equalized his emotions in response to theirs, so they focused their thoughts on hate to make him give a loving response. The Equalizer realized how much they despised him, so he cured the League of the microbes infecting them and either self-destructed or returned to his home galaxy. Hawkman realized he couldn’t return to Thanagar for fear of being reinfected until he found a cure, and asked for readmission to the League. The JlofA voted him back in, and he shed a single tear of gratitude.

(Justice League of America I #118, 119) - Dr. Hubble sent out signals to outer space from his observatory in Central City. His continued failures led him to switch off the machine, but his last message was garbled and received by an alien from Arcturus. He concluded from the scrambled message that Earth was being overrun with superhumans, and sent his Adaptoids to destroy Earth's superheroes. The Adaptoids arrived in Central City, where they were confronted by the Flash. Hawkman was observing from the JlofA satellite, and his separation from Thanagar and Hawkwoman made him need a new League adventure, so he hit the JlofA emergency signal. Superman and the League responded, and after adapting to an Earth environment the creatures attacked the League and adapted to counter all of their powers before returning to their spaceship. Their master sent out a broadcast to the JlofA, telling them they could either abandon Earth, or face three groups of Adaptoids stationed in Hong Kong, San Francisco and Venice. The heroes saw the Adaptoids as a threat, and confronted them, but left Hawkman behind, feeling his grief for his loss of Thanagar would make him a liability. The battle went against them, and after being infected by the Adapotoids they retreated back to the JlofA satellite. Hawkman left a note saying he'd returned to Thanagar, and they were all steamed at his selfishness. The Adaptoids decided that the entire human race was viral, spreading too fast and destroying the planet Earth. They were no longer satisfied with forcing superheroes to leave Earth, they promised to exterminate the human race to save the planet, and broadcast their intentions on a TV transmission. Batman, Atom, Elongated Man and Green Arrow tried to defeat hem, but were bested and teleported back to the JlofA satellite alongside their fellow beaten Leaguers. The Adaptoids started toppling world governments when Hawkman returned from Thanagar, along with Hawkgirl, and teleported the Adaptoids to ther satellite. The League questioned his motivations, but his plan soon became clear. Hawkgirl’s Equalizer Disease that made everyone around her equal gave the JlofA the edge over the aliens, enabling them to defeat the Adaptoids and imprison them on an abandoned planet halfway between Earth and Thanagar. Thwe Adaptoids settled into their new home, building cities and prospering, while Hawkman and Hawkgirl vowed to monitor them.

(Justice League of America I #120, 121) - Superman and the JlofA foiled a mad scientist on New Guinea who tried to wipe out the southern hemisphere with an aqua-bomb. On Guinea Flash discovered a cave painting of Adam Strange, and  the team was then transported to Adam’s adopted home of Rann by a zeta-beam. The League helped Adam disable a giant remote-controlled ray-gun, and after introductions were made Adam told them how his wife-to-be had seemingly been vaporized by a flying lens. The League realized the gun and lens were both more powerful recreations of past threats Adam had faced. Just then Sardath appeared, and informed the League that someone had summoned them with his new Zeta-Plus Beams, which could be connected with Earth instantly, instead of taking years of advance planning.  Two more threats from Rann’s past attacked, the giant Kalulla bird, and the robot Borg. Borg apparently disintegrated the League, and Adam used the Zeta-Plus Beam to return to Earth and gather the rest of the League to avenge their comrades and deal with the mastermind behind the attacks. Kanjar Ro, the villain responsible, looked on in glee. He’d orchestrated everything so he could destroy the league for having defeated him in the past. Before the League could form a plan of action they were alerted to a freak electric storm in Long Island, and left their satellite to respond, with Adam staying behind because Earth’s surface was poisonous to him. The storm turned out to be a Cloud Creature, another revamped threat from Rann, and it defeated the League. Kanjar confronted Adam Strange and explained his schemes, but Adam responded by stealing the energi-rod he’d used to recreate the Rannian menaces and zeta-beamed back to Rann. Sardath used the brain waves on file from Kanjar Ro’s time as a prisoner on Rann to allow Adam control over the energi-rod. Adam correctly reasoned that Kanjar’s ego demanded that he destroy the entire JlofA in one fell swoop, so the seemingly murdered Leaguers must have been in captivity on Rann. In an ice cave he found the five black spheres that Kanjar had turned the League into, and undid the transformation with the energi-rod. He found an additional black sphere, and it turned out to be Alanna. She told Adam that Kanjar kept her alive as insurance to have leverage against Adam if his plan failed. The JlofA returned to Earth and defeated the Cloud Creature. Without his energi-rod Kanjar was easy pickings, and Black Canary knocked him out with a karate chop. The League went to Rann with Adam and attended his wedding to Alanna.

(Justice League of America I #125, 126) - Lugons of energy built up in the Dronndarians dimension and threatened to reach critical mass. To siphon off the energy three Dronndarians used their transmission facilities to send their minds to Earth. Their intellects inhabited statues of Julius Cesear, Benjamin Franklin and Napoleon, and offered underworld figures a chance for a one-time use of unlimited power. Each time a criminal used the transmitted lugons of energy to murder a rival or commit a crime, Dronndarr gained more time before exploding. The Dronndarrians approached Batman nemesis Two-Face, but his schizophrenic personality made him turn down the offer in hopes of saving Earth. He alerted Superman and the Justice League of America, and they were initially skeptical, but the details of his story panned out, they allowed him to help them quell a riot at Oceanside Prison led by “Bull” Langdon and other criminals powered by the Dronndarians. Aquaman figured out that the lugon energy was short-circuited by water, and commanded whales to splash the criminals, ending the riot. They confronted the Dronndarrians, who fled from their animated statues and returned home. The Dronndarrians realized they had failed, even if the League hadn’t intervened they hadn’t siphoned off nearly enough energy to save their world. They went to the Anti-Matter Universe and contracted the Weaponers of Qward to save their world by destroying Earth with a massive burst of lugon energy. The Qwardians employed Two-Face, who’d decided to turn against the League, to attach Dronndarian power blast devices to each of the Leaguers, and tell them about their planned attacks on Bomnn, Sydney and Toronto. The JlofA released more and more lugons of energy into Earth as they battled and overcame the Qwardians, but Atom realized the Qwardian scheme and Two-Face’s betrayal. He alerted his teammates and they allowed the Qwardians to beat them until the last of their lugon energy was siphoned back to Dronndar. GL used his power ring to observe the Dronndarians final fate, as their world exploded they evolved into beings of pure energy to survive.

(Justice League of America I #127) - The Anarchist kidnapped several world leaders in the name of bringing chaos to the world’s governments, and challenged the JlofA to stop him from kidnapping a group oif U.N. delegates. Superman, Green Arrow, Flash and Red Tornado responded, but the Anarchist and his cronies fought them to a standstill and snatched the delegates, leaving the U.N. furious with the Justice League. Clark Kent covered a performance by Simon Elis, faith-healer, and was convinced that he was the Anarchist. The JlofA followed Elias, but he foiled them with a burst of energy, and managed to teleport away with League members Batman, Black Canary and Elongated Man. Green Lantern told Superman that someone was mind-controlling him, forcing him to recharge his power ring and siphoning off the energy, and they deduced that the Anarchist was the culprit. The next time the Anarchist tried to make GL recharge, GL convinced Superman to knock him out with a punch. The JlofA tracked down the Anarchist, and he revealed that he was using Green Lantern’s powers and creating chaos so that he could restore the world order as Simon Elis and become a dictator. Without GL’s power to draw off, the Anarchist and his cronies were easy pickings for the League.

(Firestorm I #2) - Clark did a report on WGBS-TV about Manhattan's latest superhero Firestorm. As Superman he scouted Firestorm for the JLA. Firestorm was clearly a rookie, starstruck by Supermanb, and he had trouble capturing the villain Multiplex, but Superman promised to keep an eye on Firestorm, and nominate him for JLA membership if he proved himself worthy.

(DC Comics Presents #1, 2) - Superman came upon a spaceship that landed in the small town of Rosemont just as a beam from space destroyed it and proceeded to obliterate Rosemont. Flash arrived, and together the heroes saved the townies from being obliterated. Superman investigated the source of the beam and found two ships firing at each other. The ships called a cease fire, capturing Superman in a cage of Q-Energy and imprisoning Flash in an ultra-dense cage. The captains were Aylem of Zelkots and Islayn of the Volkir, two races that had been at war for billions of years. Aylem wanted to end the war and sent his servant Iylar to Earth to travel to the past and prevent the original cause of their civil war that occurred there, while Islayn was trying to stop him and preserve the war. They only called a cease-fire because they knew Superman and Flash were capable of stopping them, and the heroes did indeed escape their cages and take out the leaders. The Zelkot crew threatened to destroy Earth if Flash didn’t help Iylar achieve his goal. Iylar was traveling into the future to pierce the Cosmic-Curtain, a time barrier that would return him to the past, and Flash raced into the future to find him. The Volkir revealed that after the civil war they colonized Krypton and stabilized its' internal pressure, so if Iylar succeeded in preventing the races split, Krypton would have exploded millions of years earlier and Superman would not exist. They sent him after Flash to stop him, and he found Flash stuck in the 25th Century where his rival Professor Zoom was running a circle around the speedster trying to disperse his molecules, so he helped his ally defeat and imprisoned Zoom. The heroes couldn’t let the Zelkot destroy Earth, but if the civil war was prevented, not only would Krypton have perished, but they would never have left Earth and left behind exhaust from their organic ships that left behind the first unicellular life on Earth. Superman got stuck in the 30th century, but got unstuck and destroyed the communicator that allowed the aliens to monitor him by forcing a head-on collision with Superboy, his past self that was visiting the Legion of Super-Heroes, and Flash’s communicator was lost battling a savage turtle tribe in the far-flung future. Free from monitoring the heroes passed the Cosmic-Curtain, knocked out Iylar and returned to the present day. They defeated the Zelkot and Volkir and flung them into another star-system to continue their battle where Earth would be unaffected.

 (DC Comics Presents #3) - Superman returned from a mission in space to find that Earth had been replaced by Rann. He met scientist Sardath, and kept the Mists of Insalla, microorganisms awoken by Earth’s sun, from overrunning Rann. He found that villain Kaskor was to blame, since he couldn’t rule Rann he’d destroy it. He’d used a Zeta-Booster to switch Earth and Rann and sent Rann’s champion Adam Strange to Earth. When the Booster wore off Rann would return to its rightful place in Alpha Centuri and both Earth and Rann would explode. Kaskor imprisoned Superman in a cage powered by a red-sun spectrum-beam, but the hero escaped and made his way back to Earth. He teamed with Adam Strange to defeat Kaskor, and used a spacewarp to return Earth to the Milky Way moments before Rann returned to Alpha Centuri.

 (DC Comics Presents #4) - Superman’s powers were on the fritz, so he visited S.T.A.R. Labs, where the Metal Men were also being examined because their powers were malfunctioning. Dr. Jenet Klyburn concluded that massive solar flares were responsible for all their problems, and Superman suggested they team-up to find the source, and the starstruck Metal Men eagerly accepted. They found an isolated observatory where supervillain I.Q. had fired Chemo into the sun. He explained that he used a magnetic cannon to increase solar activity to improve his mental powers, but made a miscalculation, and determined that Chemo’s unique chemical composition was the only way to keep the sun from going nova. Superman double-checked his calculations and realized he was off by a decimal point, and that the sun would return to normal on its own, but Chemo would definitely make it go nova. Superman flew into space, intercepting Chemo, and bouncing him back to Earth, but the impact rendered him unconscious. The Metal men battled Chemo and were nearly destroyed before Superman intervened. Chemo overheated trying to destroy Superman, so the hero hurled him into the atmosphere to explode. At S.T.A.R. Labs Superman performed delicate surgery to restore the Metal Men.

(DC Comics Presents #5) - Lori Lemaris sought out Superman’s help after her city of Tritonis, which Superman had always called Atlantis, was seemingly attacked by Aquaman and a force from their sister city Poseidonis. Superman agreed to investigate, and Lori told him she’d often wondered if he’d forgotten her. Superman told her she’d always have a special place in his memory as his first love, but now wasn’t the time to think about the past. Superman found the people of Tritonis overly aggressive and zealous in their plans of an invasion of Poseidonis, and decided to talk to Aquaman. Aquaman told him that Poseidonis was seemingly attacked by Tritonis. They both approached Tritonis to square the facts, but were attacked by the Tritonian guard. They willingly surrendered and found that the Tritonians had made Ocean Master king of their city in exchange for protection. Ocean Master banished them from his realm, but they snuck into his palace at nightfall, convinced that he was behind the conflict between the cities. They were proved correct when Ocean Master admitted to attacking the cities and revealed a giant jellyfish monster that fed off negative emotions and incited the Tritonians. Superman rendered it powerless by remaining calm, and Aquaman defeated Ocean Master, deposing him from his rule of Tritonis.

(DC Comics Presents #6, 7) - The Metropolis Press Club presented an award to Lois and Clark fin recognition of their distinguished careers, but the ceremony was interrupted when an injured Green Lantern crashed into the building. He’d been defeated by Star Sapphire and willed his ring to Clark. Lois thought the ring made a terrible mistake. Clark used the ring to create a projection of Superman and pretended to hand the ring over to him, saving his cover. He battled Star Sapphire in Star City, buts she used her mind over matter powers to reclaim the ring. She flew off, found GL, and piloted a starship to Zamora for their forced marriage. Superman used the JLA’s satellite to track the likeliest path to Zamora and intercepted them. He defeated Star, taking her sapphire and returning her to her Carol Ferris identity. GL returned her to Earth, but Superman was ambushed by Weaponers of Qward, upset that his interference kept him from obtaining the sapphire and GL’s ring. They subdued Superman and took him back to Qward, where they used his body as a substitute for the power gems they sought. They shackled the hero to an immense crystal orb and infused him with q-energy, focusing the power of Qward’s twin suns to create a Q-Field on Earth that paralyzed every living being. The Qwardians opened a portal to Earth, and established a colony at Metropolis’ Riverside Park. Red Tornado, whose inorganic nature made him immune to the field, repelled them, and forced their leader Kiman to flee back to Qward. He shut down the portal, but not before Tornado made it through. Tornado freed Superman, andf together they destroyed the Q-Field, freeing Earth from its influence. Back on Earth Superman used super-hypnosis to recondition the Qwardians left behind to abandon the evil ways their society imposed on them. He moved them to the Australian outback, where their alien tech allowed them to turn unused land into farmland. Superman hoped they could make a new start, and things seemed promising when they established friendly relations with local Australians.

(DC Comics Presents #8) - Superman found Solomon Grundy lurking in the Metropolis sewers and engaged him in battle. Swamp Thing was also present, he’d been searching for Grundy because he’d noted the similarities between himself and Grundy, and he hoped that if he learned more about Grundy he’d have insuights about curing his condition. He found Superman and Grundy, and tried to articulate himself to make them stop fighting, but when that failed he pinned back Superman’s arms and allowed Grundy to knock him out. Superman revived and found them gone. He was confused because he’d heard about Swamp Thing from Batman, who assured him that the monster was trustworthy. Superman wanted to prevent Grundy from resurrecting from Slaughter Swamp, so he took a sample of swamp water and gave it to Dr. Klyburn of S.T.A.R. Labs. Lois met him at S.T.A.R., and he continued to show her more attention, even giving her a kiss. The disturbance of Slaughter Swamp cause it to produce 60 Grundy clones, all bent on attacking Superman and S.T.A.R. Labs. Swamp Thing had no success in getting them to calm down, so Superman used a chemical from Klyburn to destroy the Grundys one by one. Swamp Thing was outraged, even though Grundy didn’t fit some definitions of life, neither did he. He tried to shout at Superman, but the hero avoided him after their earlier fight, and Swamp Thing watched helplessly as Superman dispatched the Grundys.

(DC Comics Presents #9) - Lois and Clark interviewed the famed sculptor Anton Lupescu at his cabin outside Metropolis, but he seemed to go into a trance that forced him to finish an immense ice sculpture. Once he finished it he collapsed, reviving briefly with full memory of why he’d fallen into a trance. He tried to tell Clark why his sculpture must be destroyed before it came alive and dragged him off. Clark changed to Superman and teamed with Wonder Woman, who was visiting Metropolis, to battle the Ice Monster. They saved Anton, but the Monster escaped. Superman and Wonder Woman returned to Anton’s cabin only to find him gone, kidnapped by the Ice  Monster. His housekeeper Mrs. Quinch told them that Anton had revealed all to her. The Skyrnians, an extraterrestrial polar race whose planet was undergoing global warming, were looking to repopulate on Earth, so one of them sent his consciousness into Anton and made the Ice Monster sculpture a receptacle for his mind. The heroes found Anton being forced to carve another Monster. The Skyrnian divided his consciousness between the two sculptures, but Superman and Wonder Woman defeated them by moving and planning at superspeed, baffling the alien. After destroying the Ice Monsters Superman stored the Skyrnian’s consciousness in a thermal container. He commented that their plans to repopulate Earth were doomed from the start because Skyrn was thousands of light-years from Earth, and the Earth they thought was suitable for them was in an ice age.

(Identity Crisis #3 (fb)) - The Secret Society switched bodies with the JLA. They took time to document the JLA’s secret identities. After being defeated the JLA erased their memories with Zatanna’s help, but kept Superman and Batman in the dark about what they did.

(DC Comics Presents #10) - Superman was the guest of an award ceremony at the Arc De Triomphe in France, where the French President gave him an award for diverting an asteroid that would have destroyed Paris. The award contained a bomb that exploded, sending Superman back in time to the year 1944. He’d lost his memory, and didn’t understand why he was wearing a circus costume, so he took an army outfit discarded by a Nazi disguised as an American soldier. Superman was met by Sgt. Rock and Easy Company, who were leery of his amnesia story since they were the ones who just took out the German company posing as American soldiers. After Superman answered some questions about American pop culture they let him follow them as their new pal Tag-Along. Superman didn’t realize that the army outfit he was wearing had a tracking device, allowing the Germans to hone in on Easy and send a Tiger Tank after them. Rock gave Tag-Along a bazooka, but Superman’s memory was jogged because of his inexorable code against taking a human life. He disappeared from Easy, but took out the tank and as German plane sent against easy, making sure there were no casualties. He destroyed the homing beacon and confronted a German troop waiting for Easy at a nearby farmhouse. He called himself Corporal Steel and told them he was a super-soldier, just like Rock. After a demonstration of his powers the Germans ran in terror. Superman allowed himself to be found by Easy in the wreckage of the German hideout, and played dead, not wanting to disrupt history by letting them know who Superman was.. Easy commended whatever he did to make the Germans flee, and gave him a proper burial.

(DC Comics Presents #11) - Superman dug himself out of his grave, and returned to the present only to be savagely attacked by Hawkman, who revealed that he’d planted the bomb. Superman was disorientated by his friend’s attack, and the fact that Hawkman had been given superhuman strength due to a charge of Polaris starlight.  The fight ended when Hawkman retreated and sent a flock of falcons to attack French onlookers to distract Superman. Hawkgirl approached Superman, worried about her partner, who’d cut off contact with her, and Superman realized Hawkman was being mind-controlled. Superman delayed looking after Hawkman when he met Marc Teichman, winner of the Daily Planet’s charity lottery drawing and a Super-Day of spending time with Superman. Superman flew Marc around, giving him a chance to photography many feats of super-strength. Marc developed his photos and noticed energy radiating off Superman, so he took them to Clark, who he knew could contact the Action Ace. Marc also located a Blue Jay that was trying to get Clark’s attention, and turned out to have been sent by Hawkman. Superman worked out from the bird’s story and Marc’s photos that Hawkman’s enemy Frank Rayles had taken over his mind, and intended to destroy him by amping up his strength and having him strike the invulnerable Superman. The Polaris energy was unstable, and such a strike would cause Hawkman to explode. Superman took the problem head on, confronting Hawkman, and dodging his blow, but creating a phosphorescent light show so Rayles would thing Hawkman was dead and remove the remote-controlled helmet he used on Hawkman. The heroes then defeated Rayles, and thanked Marc Teichman for his help by flying him back to his home in Staten Island.

(DC Comics Presents #12) - Mr. Miracle arrived in Metropolis and announced himself as the city’s newest hero, beating out Superman on many rescue missions and crimestopping. Superman admitted to Jimmy, off the record, that Miracle was getting to him, especially when he saw his former fans wearing Mr. Miracle t-shirts. Superman confronted Miracle and told him there were plenty of other cities that needed heroes, but Miracle told Superman he was an old-timer and the one who should find a new city. He goaded Superman into signing up for a highly publicized contest live on TV. They’d meet in Nevada, and the first one back to Las Vegas would be the winner, with no other rules for the challenge. They battled with Superman winning, but when he flew off he found that Miracle had tricked him into flying in the opposite direction as Les Vegas using illusion. He caught tp to Miracle who had a number of Intergang members under arrest. He’d learned of their plan to use their Mentropy Machine to obliterate Superman’s mind, but their machine prevented him from telling Superman about their plans. He’d set up the whole rivalry with Superman, gambling that Intergang would be waiting for himat the finish line. Superman was pleased with him, but when he told Superman he threw their fight he greatly vexed the Man of Steel. Superman told him a rematch wasn’t out of the question, but Miracle told him a magician never repeated their tricks.

(Superman in “The Computers That Saved Metropolis”) –Superman visited a Metropolis elementary school and gave a lecture on the history and uses of computers, and gave the class a series of TRS-80 computers. Whiz Kids Shanna and Alec were especially impressed, and eager to pit the TRS against Superman and his super-brain. Superman had to leave to stop a tornado created by Major Disaster from destroying Metropolis. He used his super-breath to put it out, but swallowed kryptonite crystals  released by Disaster that interfered with his neurons. Major Disaster knew he could counter this effect my creating a micro-relay with a computer, so he shut down Metropolis’ computer systems and issued a challenge, he’d create three disasters and knew Superman would be powerless to stop any of them. Superman visited the Whiz Kids, and using a headset he had them feed information into the TRS-80 computers so he could calculate the amount of superpowers needed to stop a lightning storm, a flood, and a nuclear disaster. Superman then tracked down Master Disaster’s energy signature and brought him to justice. The kryptonite crystals wore off, but Superman was grateful for the help he got from the Whiz Kids.

(DC Comics Presents #52) - A power outage blacked out most of New Jersey, and Superman investigated, finding an overloaded power plant. The source of the overload was the energy being Negative Woman, and she sped past the Man of steel at nearly the speed of light. Lois and Jimmy were covering the Metropolis Day parade, and villain Ambush Bug decided to make his debut by killing DA Syms there. Superman went into action again, but had a second encounter with Negative Woman, and after passing through Superman the charge of her body knocked him out. He was woken by the new Doom Patrol, and Ambush Bug tried to incite them to fight before teleporting away. Superman was suspicious of a Doom Patrol he never met, but Robotman vouched for his new teammates, and they asked him for help containing Negative Woman, whose powers had run amok. Ambush Bug kept interfering, attacking them before teleporting away. Superman realized he was using mechanical insects to teleport, and destroyed all of them. Ambush Bug dared Robotman to hit him, and failing to teleport away, he was knocked out. Superman used a lead box to contain Negative Woman until her powers were under control.

(DC Comics Presents #59) - Ambush Bug broke out of jail and decided to annoy Superman, teleporting on his back and wrapping his cape around his head as he was traveling through time. Superman had an errand to run in the 40th Century, but couldn't bring the Bug, so he stopped by the 30th century and dropped him by the Legion of Substitute Heroes, who were subbing for the MIA Legion. Polar Boy put him in a holding cell, and assured Superman everything would be okay. Superman ran his errand only to find Ambush Bug had escaped the hero's custody. Chlorophyll Kid admitted that their holding cell was broken, so they had Bug in an aquarium tank. The Science Police alerted Superman to the chaos Bug was causing, and he was currently running through the Superman Museum. Superman dreaded Ambush Bug discovering his secret identity, and flew to the museum with the Substitute Heroes. He tried frying all the bugs he used to teleport, but Ambush Bug had more stored in his antennae. Superman reasoned that Ambush Bug could be tricked by putting up signs telling him not to enter a room, and not to push a button, and as soon as the signs were up Ambush Bug activated a Phantom Zone projector, trapping him. Superman gave the Subs a pep talk, telling them they'd make their own legends one day.

(DC Comics Presents #81) - Ambush Bug found a piece of red kryptonite, and had the stone set, presenting it to Superman as a gift, and hoping he'd stop being angry at him. The red-K switched their minds, and Superman, now in Ambush Bug's body, was furious, telling him he had to start taking responsibility for his actions. Ambush Bug took this to mean he should start saving the world as Supes, and flew off. Superman Robots caught Supes / Ambush bug and locked him up. Superman finally figured out how to use Ambush Bug's suit to teleport when the red-K wore off, and Superman was in the middle of a blaze on Coney Island, caused by Ambush Bug's inexperience with Superman's powers. Ambush Bug had been battling Kobra, but Superman had to let him get away to put out the fire using a tidal wave. The wave soaked ambush Bug, and he yelled at Superman for being perfect all the time. Superman couldn't help but laugh at him, and a miffed Ambush Bug teleported away.

(Action Comics I #553, 554) - Vandal Savage infected Superman with time-seeds from the time pyramids. As the seeds dropped in Metropolis Park they turned it into a prehistoric jungle which quickly spread to the heart of Metropolis. Immortal Man and the Forgotten Heroes contacted Superman and let him know about Savage's plans. Superman flew into the sun to burn off the seeds, and then traveled back in time with Rip Hunter to the Big Bang to destroy the original time pyramid. He succeeded, causing the time pyramids to disappear from the present, but Superman was lost in the timestream, and Rip Hunter returned to the present without him. The time pyramids were created by the Zandrians, and once destroyed they recreated Earth's history, eliminating humanity's capability for violence, imagination and the heroic concept. In this new reality Superman ceased to exist. The Zandrians flew to Earth, caused massive property damage and demanded humanity surrender to them. Young comic creators Joey and Jerry created the concept of a superhero they named Superman, undoing the work of the time pyramids and bringing Superman back into existence. Superman handily defeated the Zandrians and demanded they free all the worlds under their control.

(Action Comics I #561) - Toyman was released from Metropolis prison and vowed to go straight. Superman didn't believe he was rehabilitated, and as Clark Kent he interviewed him about the Great Toyman Trivia Contest. He offered one million dollars to the contestant who knew the most about his career, but rigged the show so that the only contestants picked were actually lifelike toys. The only exception was Chester Dunholtz, who was the only person who could answer the question "What was the first toy ever constructed by me." Toyman announced the end of the show, dragged Chester off, and tried to kill him with toys because Chester had destroyed the first toy he ever made, a model airplane. Superman saved Chester, who gloated that Toyman owed him a million, but Superman revealed that the game show rules were void because toys were used as contestants.

(Action Comics I #561) - Clark and Lana did a consumer report piece on gem Unlimited, whose rubies were fake. In actuality the rubies were red kryptonite, and after being exposed to one Superman split into a future version of himself and Superboy. The future Superman dealt with a viral space-dust cloud while Superboy destroyed a shaman's talisman that transformed quarry workers into half-human half-animals. After the effects of the red K ended Superman reflected that Superboy was unprepared for threats while future Superman relied too much on his futuristic powers, so he was glad to be back to being himself.

(Action Comics I #562) -Superman dealt with magnetic fields in Metropolis that were causing havoc and found that Queen Bee was responsible, but she eluded him. She managed to free the Planeteer from his magnetic cell, and he sought revenge on Superman before the Queen convinced him to come off and be her king. Superman later confronted them and defeated them with a belt that reversed the polarity of his body and negated their powers.

(Action Comics I #565) - Superman fought the Wizard City Warrior, who used Kryptonian tech to fight Superman to a standstill. Superman went to Wizard City in Kurtiswana, where he found the kidnapped Jimmy Olsen, who was caught by the Warrior while doing a story on the city. The Warrior defeated Superman and flew to Metropolis to destroy it with chain-reaction grenades. Jimmy used a Wizard City catapult to return Superman to Metropolis, and Supes knew he couldn't use brute force to defeat the Warrior, so he immobilized him with a Klurkor wrestling hold. Superman then buried Wizard City near the center of the Earth so no one would raid its artifacts in the future.

(Action Comics I #565) - Ambush Bug visited the Fortress of Solitude and told Superman he wanted to reflect on the "good times" in Supes life, like when Supergirl fell in love with her horse and Superman built a kryptonite-proof suit but forgot to put eye-holes in it. Superman tossed Bug out the door.

(Action Comics I #566) - Lois and Clark accepted an offer from Captain Strong to join him on a cruise of the Fantasia through the Bahamas. Strong revealed that the ship's previous owner Captain Wynne left a journal that suggested he found the fountain of youth in the Bahamas. As they approached Andros island, the site of the fountain, the Old Lady of the Sea sent storms and monsters to chase them off, but Clark secretly used his superpowers to keep them from harm, allowing Strong to think he'd regained his old powers and letting him take credit for the saves. On Andros the Old Lady and her companion, Strong's father, tried to drive them off, but their scuffle destroyed the fountain. The Old Lady conjured a magical duplicate of Superman, but Strong fought it off because the Old Lady's powers were ebbing as she was dying because of the fountain's destruction.

(Action Comics I #566) - Superman got a letter from a girl named Molly who wanted to join the Autograph Hound club at her school. He was touched by the fact that her parents died to save her as an infant, after which she spent time in an orphanage before being adopted. He signed her autograph book, and told her they had a lot in common.

(Action Comics I #567) - Superman had a statue dedicated to him in Coaltown, because he'd kept the town from burning. He changed back to Clark, met up with Lois and covered Alan T. Grant and Yellow Peri's real estate scam at Paradise Pines. Grant used Peri's magical protection as a selling point, but her spells kept misfiring. Peri grew a crop of food for the potential buyers, and anyone that ate it, including  Superman lost their inhibitions. Superman proposed to Lois, but Peri stopped them from marrying, saying she loved Superman. Superman took her magic book away and found a spell to reverse everything she'd done. She returned to being plain Mrs. Grant, and no one remembered what happened at Paradise Pines except Superman.

(Action Comics I #567) -  Clark spoke at the Superman Watchers convention and learned of Phillip Strick, a blind man who was denied admission. Superman observed Strick, who was using a sound-synthesizer to analyze Superman's powers and pinpoint his location, thus "watching" him. Unfortunately his neighbor, crook Walter Perkins was collecting Strick's data, and planned to hand it over to crimeboss Mr. Sweeney. Superman had the Superman Watchers flood Sweeny with bogus scientific data, so that when Strick tried to hand over what he collected Sweeny sent him away. Sweeny tried to attack Strick, but Superman had him arrested, and vouched for Strick's membership in the Watchers

(Action Comics I #568) - Superman saved a metroliner after it's been derailed by a falling meteor and learned that stage magician Jinx Turner was a passenger. Jinx put on a children's charity show in Metropolis and accidentally teleported the children to India. He confessed to Superman that he was a real magician and that sometimes his thoughts became reality, such as his dream about falling meteors. Superman and Jinx went to India, saved a Maharajah's palace from a rogue elephant, and brought the children back home.

(Action Comics I #568) - The Legion tipped off Superman to a thief arriving from the future, and Superman quickly dispatched him and sent him back to the 30th Century. He left behind a thought actualizer that Jimmy O9lsen used to create dream dates for himself, Clark and Lois. Clark met Nova-Woman, but Shvaugn of the Science Police came to the present to take the actualizer away, and Nova-Woman disappeared.

(Action Comics I #573) - Superman returned from a space excursion to find everyone on Earth missing except for J. Wilbur Wolfingham and his nephew Wormwood. Wolfingham admitted he claimed to be owner of Earth and sold it to a planetary real estate agent named Bax, who transformed everyoner on Earth into energy and put them into a holding cube. Superman told the con man he'd been conned, and as much as he was loathe to do so he'd help get ownership of Earth away from Bax, who'd be entitled to fight the case in intergalactic court. When Bax brought by a prospective buyer Superman pelted them with ice cream, a pepper storm and tires, and Wolfingham convinced them these were normal weather conditions on Earth. After the customer was driven off Wolfingham convinced Bax that Superman was a genie and Bax claimed possession of him. Returning to space Bax told Superman to guide him through meteors, but Superman did it in such a way as to make Bax fear for his life. Bax returned to Earth and told Wolfingham he'd give back the deed to Earth if only Wolfingham took Superman back as well. With that Superman restored Earth's populace from the holding cube.

(Action Comics I #573) - Superman stopped an oil fire on Metropolis bridge and brought the commuters to safety using a popcorn slide. It was hot dog vendor Ernie Doyle's popcorn and he started marketing it as "The Popcorn That Saved Metropolis."

(Action Comics I #574) - Superman was approached by Rad Zonan, the last member of the Ostok race, who used to compete against Kryptonians in sporting events. He challenged Superman to a series of super sporting-events and Superman accepted. They had races across the world, and swims across oceans, and though it was close the sensitive equipment that judged the events determined Rad to be the winner. Superman gave Rad a Kryptonian flag, and Rad left Earth. Dr. Klyburn of S.T.A.R. Labs learned that Superman actually won and that energy from Zonan's body altered the equipment's reading. Superman revealed to Jimmy and Klyburn that Zonan had used treatments to give himself the strength of a youthful member of his species and that they'd soon result in his death. Superman didn't care that he "lost," the games were a fitting tribute to Zonan's people.

(Action Comics I #574) - Mr. Mxyzptlk was so proud of the birth of his son Kytsbtn that he threw a party at the Daily Planet and decided to commemorate the decision by freezing time and keeping the day from ever ending. Clark reminded him that if he froze time he would never have the pleasure of seeing his son growing up. Mxy saw the logic in this, set things right, and returned to the 5th Dimension.

(Action Comics I #576) - Astronomer Mark Hayim showed Clark Kent that a previously unknown planet was heading towards Earth. Clark changed to Superman and investigated, and saw it firing a gamma radiation cannon at Earth. He blocked the radiation and aboard the planet he met Klysto and his reptilian race. Klysto wanted to destroy the populace of Earth so his people could move in, but most of his subjects opposed the genocide. He fought with superman, then flew off in a spaceship and shot another gamma blast. Superman blocked the shot, but created an implosion that destroyed Klysto and his ship. Superman brought the planet into an orbit paralleling Venus so that Klysto's race, whose planets contained power supply was almost exhausted, could survive.

(Action Comics I #576) - Superman unveiled a statue of himself for Youth Day in Metropolis, but the statue was switched with the hero Vaalor, who'd been trapped in a metal coating by the Voron invaders who attacked Metropolis. In an act of desperation Vaalor used his mental powers to switch minds with Superman and went after the Vorons, but he wasn't used to Supes powers and couldn't round up the aliens. Jimmy Olsen remembered that the Vorons were vulnerable to ultrasound, so he set off his signal-watch, which freed Vaalor's body from its encasing. Superman and Vaalor teamed up to defeat the Vorons, and then Vaalor put Superman's mind back in its proper body. Vaalor felt bad about rashly switching minds with Superman, but Supes thought the rookie was worthy, and made a statue of him to stand in Metropolis.

(Swamp Thing II #46) - Superman was among the number of heroes teleported to the Monitor’s satellite by Alexander Luthor, Jr., who explained his plan to make sure reality survived the Crisis.

Comments: Created by Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster.

Superman had a cameo in Legion of Super-Heroes III #6, Shazam! I #1, Tales of the Legion of Super-Heroes #331.

Adventure Comics III #0 reprinted Superboy's appearance in Adventure Comics I #247.

Superman's appearance in Action Comics I #226 was reprinted in Best of DC #42 and Superman Annual I #2, Action Comics I #254, 255 was reprinted in 80-Page Giant Magazine #6, Adventure Comics I #304 was reprinted in Adventure Comics I #403, 499, Legion of Super-Heroes III #11, 12 was reprinted in Tales of the Legion of Super-Heroes #336, 337, Superman I #169 was reprinted in Superman I #202, Superman Family #168.

Superman's appearance in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #24 was reprinted in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #129.

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