Superboy #30

From 1954, this ten-cent DC adventure pits the Boy of Steel against a towering, scale-skinned giant who looms over a bridge and harbor, wielding a full-sized bus like a club. Win Mortimer and Stan Kaye's cover captures Superboy swooping in with determined urgency as aircraft and chaos fill the skies above Smallville's waterfront. With Bill Finger writing and John Sikela on interior art, "The Giant Who Came to Smallville!" promises the kind of outsized, imaginative threat that made Silver Age DC comics such a joy.