Superboy #1/1983

When Rachel Desruc steals a mystical crystal ball, she’s cursed with the form of an elderly woman—only a kiss from an alien can break the spell. Desperate, she travels to Smallville, where Superboy and his friends are already dealing with chaos: Bash Bashford has been transformed into a flaming being by one of Lex Luthor’s weapons. As Rachel tries to win Superboy’s favor, the town faces a fiery threat—and the line between magic and science begins to blur.

When Superboy [Clark Kent] is assigned an essay on the 1962 manned spaceflight, he accidentally crosses into that year—only to witness his younger self helping launch the rocket, a moment he can’t remember. As he watches from the shadows, questions grow: why does this memory feel so unfamiliar? With Lana Lang, Miß Hart, Louis, and Martha Kent all part of the scene, the past and present blur in a moment that challenges everything he thought he knew.

In a quiet moment of reflection, Superboy confronts a hidden chapter from his past when he discovers that the young President John F. Kennedy once secretly tasked him with a mission—unknown to even himself at the time. With the help of his mother, Martha Kent, he begins to unravel a memory buried by self-hypnosis, one that ties his earliest days of heroism to a moment that changed history.