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Cover: Curt Swan & Stan Kaye

Superboy #33

Jun 1954 · DC · 0.10 USD
📊 ~14,004 copies sold its debut month
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“The Case of the Crying Clown!”

This 1954 DC gem spotlights a wonderfully bizarre cover by penciler Curt Swan and inker Stan Kaye, promising "The Crazy Costumes of the Boy of Steel!" — and the scene delivers immediately: a Clark Kent–dressed young man in an orange jacket flies alongside a caped Superboy whose costume appears to be on fire, both soaring over a farmyard while startled crows scatter and a bewildered farmer in overalls looks on from below. The playful absurdity of dual flying figures and rampaging birds over a quiet Smallville farm captures exactly the kind of imaginative Silver Age charm that made this series so endearing in 1954.

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artist Curt Swan · inker Sy Barry · cover Curt Swan, Stan Kaye

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artist Curt Swan
inker Sy Barry
cover pencils Curt Swan
cover inks Stan Kaye

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Superboy accidentally acquires a pet from space with chameleon powers that almost gives away his secret identity.

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