Adventure Comics #303

Adventure Comics #303 brings a genuinely tense setup right on its 1962 cover: Superboy is surrounded mid-air by trained falcons bearing Kryptonite on their talons, visibly struggling as a commanding figure below barks orders through a megaphone — "I win our duel, Superboy! Now you will do as I command — or die!" Curt Swan's pencils and George Klein's inks give the scene real menace, with the circling birds hemming in a clearly weakened Boy of Steel against a wintry backdrop. Leo Dorfman's script and George Papp's interior art promise a clever, threat-filled tale worthy of the story's bold title, "The Man Who Hunted Superboy!