Adventure Comics #186

Adventure Comics #186 brings a pulse-quickening cover by Curt Swan and Ray Burnley, depicting Superboy streaking head-on toward a massive oncoming locomotive while a young boy scrambles to safety on the tracks below — all the speed and split-second heroism that made 1953 DC stories so compelling. The bold masthead promises "another exciting story of Superman when he was Superboy," and the title "Smallville Becomes a Ghost Town" hints at something unusual stirring in Clark Kent's hometown. Interior art by John Sikela keeps the action going well past that dramatic cover.