Silver

Superboy 55. I have seen some higher grade copies of this book. Believe it or not this isn't the only Pa Kent spanking cover

Superboy 54. Got this copy off of eBay many moons ago. Like the green colors on the book. You realize when you collect an entire series that there are books you don't see very often. I felt that way about this one when I got it.

Thank you Tomo, I will make sure to keep you in mind as I upgrade issues and look for homes for my undercopies!

53 is the "other" Superman cover. I got this issue with its bone white pages from eBay where it had a really poor scan and not book description for $35. I think I did the happy dance when I opened the package. You know, every once in awhile it happens.

52 is the first silver age issue according to Overstreet. I don't really prescribe to that theory.

Got this nice copy of 51 from Dale Roberts:

Superboy 50. Got this one from Bob Storms. If you are at all familiar withe the DC 100 Page Super Spectaculars, this is a issue that was reprinted in DC-21. That particular issue is one of my most influential comics and personal favorites as I give it credit for really inspiring collectoritis in my young self. I bought that issue off the rack at a 7-11. A couple of things I remember. The very first Superboy story said something like "Tales of Superman when he was a boy". I had though they were two different people! This issue also had the awesome "Super Moby of Space" reprint from Adventure 332, and...all in the same issue...one of my favorite comics of all time Brave and the Bold 54 with the beginnings of the Teen Titans! If that wasn't enough, the original covers on the back! One of the coolest things to me back then was to find the original issue of a reprinted story.

I,would,like to get a higher grade copy of this issue, but the one shot I had I came up short in an auction. This Metallo has no relation to the one in Action 252, but is a sought after issue nonetheless.

This issue is kind of special for me. For many, many years it was my earliest issue of Superboy. I bought it from Sparkle City Comics in an ad from the Buyers Guide back in the late 80's. At that time I wasn't even familiar with the covers to each issue, so it wasn't kind of cool when you would get one in and see it for the first time. I would own an earlier issue of this title until the 2000's.

There were not many cover with Superman on it and this is the first one since issue 1. I always liked this cover. Of course the story is from a dream sequence. I bought this issue from an ad in the old Comic Buyers Guide. Sight unseen! Can you imagine?

This 46 I bought from Metropolis Comics at a SDCC. I later had it slabbed for my registry set. You can see the ding in the top left corner showing I didn't even bother to press it

Superboy 45

Now a question for all you silver age scholars out there, are we in the silver age yet, or still in that twilight zone between gold, atomic and silver? Hmm....

Back to Clark is Superboy covers:

Now the farm:

Take a break from Lana and let's head to the rodeo:

Another one of those "look what our super son can do" covers. I got this copy at a weird one off comic con in Las Vegas that had some great dealers attendance but poor buyer attendance. Comic Cons in Vegas haven't done well until Amazing Comic Cons came around, their show is in its 4th or 5th year:

At this point Lana is a regular in the series and gets a lot more cover appearances. I have seen a 9.4 of this book, this copy actually looks,nicer than a 6.5

First code approved issue:

and here is the last one:

Two more pre-codes left:

Double entendre Superboy style?

I really like this issue for a coupe of reasons, one is that other than #6, there were just these two red covers in all of the early issues. Can you just imagine how awesome a high grade one would look? The other reason is that there is a really cool full page ad for Jimmy Olsen #1 inside. Only a coupe of pre-code issues left:

A board member here just recently showed me his crazy high grade copy of SB 34, here is my more modest copy. Like other issues in the 30's it's a middle of the road copy. I found this on at SDCC. If I only held out for high grade issues I would be missing a lot of issues and be broke or single.

I think it's definitely the earliest fat shaming cover: