Comic Title: Superboy #24
Publisher: DC (National Comics Publications, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: Feb/Mar 1953
Approx. On Sale Date: December 10, 1952 Copyright Date December 8, 1952
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1952
Until 1958 DC did not report actual on sale dates to the copyright office
The publication dates listed in LoC records are NOT release dates.


Frequency: Bi-monthly
Cover Price: $0.10
Page Count: 40
Editor: Jack Schiff

Title: "The Super-Fat Boy of Steel"
Pages: 10

Feature(s):
Superboy (of Earth-1)

Writer: William Woolfolk
Penciller: John Sikela
Inker: Ed Dobrotka

Feature Character(s)

• Superboy (last appearance in Adventure Comics #184; next appearance in Superboy #24)

Supporting Character(s)

• Lana Lang (last appearance in Adventure Comics #183; next appearance in Superboy #24)
• Jonathan Kent (last appearance in Superboy #23; next appearance in Superboy #24)
• Martha Kent (last appearance in Adventure Comics #184; next appearance in Superboy #25)

Other Character(s)

• Eddy Bray, Joe Morgan, and other Smallville students (no further appearances)
• Coach Gaines (no further appearances)
• Professor Moore (a chemistry teacher; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
When Superboy returns to Smallville after a two week absence, he discovers that all the local students have become fat including Lana Lang. The following day, Clark Kent also suddenly becomes fat. Since Clark is Superboy, he too is overweight, making Lana Lang suspicious.

Superboy eventually discovers that the local cows ate corn tainted with an experimental growth chemical. The milk the cows produced caused sudden weight gain in humans. Superboy helps cure the students and himself. He then tricks Lana, to thwart her suspicions concerning his secret identity.