Comic Title: Superboy #77
Publisher: DC (National Comics Publications, Inc.)
Address: 575 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: December 1959
On Sale Date: October 8, 1959 Copyright Date October 8, 1959
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1959

Frequency: Monthly, with the exception of Feb., May, Aug., and Nov.
Cover Price: $0.10
Page Count: 32
Editor: Mort Weisinger

Title: "Superboy's Best Friend"
Pages: 9

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

Writer: Leo Dorfman
Artist: George Papp

Reprinted In:
Adventure Comics #319 (1964)

Feature Character(s)

• Superboy (last appearance in Superboy #77; next appearance in Adventure Comics #267)

Supporting Character(s)

• Jonathan Kent (last appearance in Superboy #77; next appearance in Adventure Comics #267)
• Martha Kent (last appearance in Adventure Comics #266; next appearance in Adventure Comics #267)

Villain(s)

• Joe Shaw and Rick Farrow (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Freddy Shaw (dies in this story; no further appearances)
• Jack and some other Smallville boys (no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Clark Kent feels lonely because he can not share his secret with other boys his age or develop close friendships. One day, he saves the life of Freddy Shaw, a new boy, and they become friends. Clark decides to tell Freddy his secret identity. At first it is great to have a playmate, but when Freddy’s criminal brother Joe trys to blackmail Superboy with his secret, the Boy of Steel feels betrayed.

Clark is angry with Freddy, but he learns that he only revealed the secret in a fevered sleep. Freddy dies of this malady, and Superboy is able to save his secret by passing off the boy’s words as a hallucination brought on by the fever. Clark keeps a Freddy Shaw robot as a memento of his friend.