Silver

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:

This book is kind of cool. It's because of this issue that I met the incredible Steecity, one of my favorite people I never met. He reached out and messaged me after I won the book on eBay to ask what it looked like in hand. We have kept in touch ever since.

Love this grey cover. Think I got this copy from Harley Yee at a SDCC.

Superboy 31: I pretty much got most of the 30's quite awhile ago. As a group they are mostly mid grade copies. They are probably not quite as difficult to find as those 20's but you still see these seldom Love you! In nice shape. I would probably upgrade any of these if nicer affordable copies came around. I particularly like 32 and 35.

Superboy 30. This is an issue I would love to get a nicer copy of. Adam strange has the nicest one I have seen, but he's not prone to selling comics very often (I don't blame him!) This is a cover swipe from an old pulp magazine, Thrilling Wonder Stories from 1940. It also gets re-used again in Jimmy Olsen. Funny thing about the story, the turtle man is a baby...the cover image is an adult man.

I bought the 28 and 29 off of eBay as a pair. These later 20s are not slab or in my registry set currently.

Okie dokie, 27: According to Overstreet 27 is scarcer. Experience tells me it's really no more harder to find than any other issue in the same timeframe. I kind of lost track of where I've gotten some of these issues as I have had them a long time.

It's not limited to Superboy, I thinks it's indicative of the time frame. Any DC title would be the same, the issues right around 1952-1954 can be extremely tough.

Lol, at least I know someone is still looking at this thread!