Adventure Comics #184

Something feels off in Smallville — Superboy strains to lift a series of weighted blocks while a crowd of eager photographers snaps away, and the cover's speech bubbles hint that those very cameras may be the source of an unseen threat. Win Mortimer's cover art captures a wonderfully tense scene, with onlookers doubting the Boy of Steel's strength even as a smug bystander knowingly smirks at the edge of the frame. This January 1953 issue of Adventure Comics poses a genuinely intriguing question: what grim menace lurks behind "The Shutterbugs of Smallville"?