Comic Title: Superboy #30
Publisher: DC (National Comics Publications, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: January 1954
Approx. On Sale Date: November 27, 1953 Copyright Date November 25, 1953
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1953
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: Monthly, with the exception of Feb., May, Aug., and Nov.
Cover Price: $0.10
Page Count: 40
Editor: Mort Weisinger

Title: "The Giant Who Came to Smallville"
Pages: 12

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

Penciller: Curt Swan
Inker: Sy Barry

Feature Character(s)

• Superboy (last appearance in Adventure Comics #196; next appearance in Superboy #30)

Supporting Character(s)

• Jonathan Kent (last appearance in Adventure Comics #196; next appearance in Superboy #31)
• Martha Kent (last appearance in Adventure Comics #196; next appearance in Superboy #31)
• Lana Lang (last appearance in Adventure Comics #196; next appearance in Superboy #30)

Other Character(s)

• George Dean and Joyce (the mayor of Smallville and his wife; no further appearances)
• Fred Willis and his wife (both die in this story; no further appearances)
• Fred's unnamed son (no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Scientist Fred Willis leaves Smallville to conduct experiments with a growth serum. When Willis is killed in a volcanic eruption, his infant son is left alone. The baby drinks the growth formula and becomes a giant. The giant baby then wanders aimlessly causing destruction to everything around him.

Superboy finds the giant and realizes that he is only a child. Superboy calls off the military and leads the child to a canyon near Smallville. On the way, the mayor's barn is destroyed when the baby steps on it. Superboy traps the baby in the canyon, then seeks a cure.

Angered by the destruction of his barn the mayor summons the sheriff to help deal with the giant. Instead of killing the baby, they only succeed in setting him loose. Superboy returns inside a giant robot which calms the baby. He then administers an antidote to the growth serum returning the baby to normal. The mayor then adopts the child.