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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!

Last one for now, but a great one. My friend Steelcity and I both have an affinity for this issue, he actually has a slightly nicer copy. I upgraded from a good to this. Mr. Bedrock offered these to me a long time ago. There was another book I bought at the same time. If I remember right they were original owner copies. This and the adventure both have some of the nicest pages I have ever seen. Love the covers on both of them, probably the Adventure a little more.

Superboy 25. Ditto. Got this as a raw from Superworld Ted. Have never seen another one close to it.

Superboy 24. Same story, not a copy you see often.

Superboy 23. One of those really tough ones. I have upgraded from a,lower graded copy.

Superboy 22. I think of the group, this one shows up a little more often. I got this copy from Robert Roter who also had a 9.0 which was priced to high for me, this copy was good enough at a substantially lower price.

The Superboy 21-26 are some of the very toughest issues to find in the run, especially over a g/vg grade. I have upgraded a couple of these from low grade issues used as fillers and would upgrade further if I ever see any of these., but that don't pop up that often. Superboy 21. Lana as a blonde? DC is still playing around with her looks a little. Sorry for the pun but this is a "super" tough book to find. I really like this cover, it just pops with those greens, would love tomseemanhigh grade copy.

Superboy 20. Another pretty cool cover. Very early Jor-El appearance. Got this copy from Harley raw and thought it had a shot at 9.0/2 but it has a pinhole in the back cover. I over paid for the grade, but it is a sweet looking copy.

Superboy 19. The original "Death of" issue. Love the colors of this book. Pretty sure I got this from Mark Wilson. It was originally selling for a pretty high price but I picked it up at auction for a little less.

Superboy 18. The last of those "whimsical" fun covers, a personal favorite of mine.

Supboy 17. My original copy was a raw that graded 5.5, but it just didn't really have the eye apparat I wanted. I got this modest upgrade not long ago. Interesting fact, the cover story of this issues was redrawn (not reprinted) in Superboy 113.

15 and 16, last two 52 pagers. For me personally these represent the golden age. I love the heft of these books. The 15 I got at SDCC many years ago from Jamie Graham. Funny little story about 20 years ago I was talking to another collector at SDCC and asked what he was looking for. He told me he wanted to find a Superboy 15 because that would complete his set. I thought that was very cool, I was a long way off then and didn't have any early issues at all. I slowly started picking up low numbers and a few years later picked up this 15. I wonder if that collector ever found his?

Number 14, first of two appearances of Mars Boy. The other being over in Adventure Comics.

Number 13. I ended up replacing a 5.5 with this nicer copy. I actually don't remember where I got this particular issue from.

Thank you. Number 12. I bought this at a SDCC many years ago as a raw copy. I think it's a little nicer than a 6.5 personally. Another yellow whimsical cover and the other Gerber 6.

I'm going to move right into #11 so you can see the much less seen issue that has Lana's first cover appearance. She looks like an adult to me. I got this nice copy from Metropolis at a San Diego Comic Con. I find that the 10 is out there and is not a difficult book to find, this issue is less common: Take a look at Lana some years later when Curt Swan was drawing her, this is her as most silver age readers knew her:

Let's finish off the first 10. Superboy 10, a mini key or sorts, one I really wanted when I was filling out this part of the run. First appearance of Lana Lang. It's kind of interesting to watch Lana's early appearance as they didn't really settle on a look for her for a few issues or more. Another yellow cover. There were issues of Superboy for almost the first twenty issues that just had fun whimsical scenes that were unrelated to any interior story. If I have it right, number 18 is the last one of those. Another note about Lana, she is arguably the most popular, prevalent character introduced in this series. She became a staple from this point until the New Adventures of Superboy was cancelled in the 1980's. This is another Williamsport copy, but I got it from Heritage:

Superboy 9. Not really a issue with anything special going for it. The colors of the ships are kind of cool. Humpty Dumpty's last (thank goodness) cover appearance, although he does appear in a story two issues later. I got this nice copy from Terry of Terry's comics at a San Diego Comic-Con.