Action Comics #232
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "The Story of Superman, Junior," a desperate father sends his son Johnny Kirk into space to escape an impending meteor strike, only for Superboy to intercept the threat and send the boy on a journey that changes everything. When Johnny returns years later, he’s a grown man with powers of his own—just as Superman begins to lose his strength, weakened by a mysterious space poison carried aboard the ship. Written by Jerry Coleman and illustrated by Wayne Boring with inks by Stan Kaye, this 1957 tale blends generational heroism and cosmic mystery, with Curt Swan’s iconic cover capturing the moment the past meets the future.
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Johnny Kirk's father blasts him into space because he thinks Earth is soon to be destroyed by a meteor. After Superboy deflects the meteor, he asks him to find his son. But Superboy is all grown up as Superman before Johnny Kirk returns to Earth, now with super powers. But Superman's own powers are disappearing due to contact with a space poison that was on Johnny's space ship.
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