Superboy #19

A striking 1952 cover by Win Mortimer sets up a genuinely puzzling dilemma: a statue memorializing Clark Kent stands in Smallville's town square, and Superboy — cape and all — turns to his foster mother with the worried admission that now Clark is supposed to be dead, he can't be her son any longer. The gathered townsfolk and the solemn monument make the stakes feel surprisingly emotional for a ten-cent comic. John Broome's script and John Sikela's interior art promise to dig into just how the Boy of Steel untangles this very public identity crisis.