Superboy #139

There's something genuinely unsettling about seeing Smallville itself turn against its greatest son — and that's exactly the drama Curt Swan and George Klein deliver on the cover of Superboy #139 (1967). A dejected Boy of Steel walks away in his tattered costume while a furious mob of townsfolk — men, women, and what appears to be even his own parents — hurls objects at him from behind, with the Smallville Bank visible in the background. Otto Binder's story "The Town That Hated Superboy!," illustrated by George Papp, promises a sharp emotional twist on the classic hero-and-hometown bond that made this era of DC storytelling so compelling.