Comic Title: Adventure Comics #223
Publisher: DC (National Comics Publications, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: April 1956
Approx. On Sale Date: February 28, 1956 Copyright Date February 26, 1956
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1956
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
Cover Price: $0.10
Page Count: 32
Editor: Mort Weisinger

Title: "Hercules, Junior"
Pages: 12

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

Penciller: Curt Swan
Inker: Stan Kaye

Feature Character(s)

• Superboy (last appearance in Superboy #48; next appearance in Superman #105)

Supporting Character(s)

• Jonathan Kent (last appearance in Superboy #48; next appearance in Superman #105)
• Lana Lang (last appearance in Superboy #48; next appearance in Superboy #49)

Other Character(s)

• Captain Neptoone and his crew (no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Superboy disguises himself as a blond boy then freezes himself inside an iceberg. When Captain Neptoone finds the iceberg, he thaws out Superboy who claims to be Hercules, Junior. The captain suspects that the boy is really Superboy, so the Boy of Steel works to carefully conceal his real identity. Then he helps recover sunken treasures worth a million dollars which he gives to Captain Neptoone for rescuing him.

Superboy gives the money to Neptoone because the captain lost his million dollar boat while saving people from an erupting volcano. Superboy was going to help, but needed to maintain that he was not there in order to protect his secret identity. Neptoone believed Superboy made the rescue and refused to accept the reward for saving the people. Superboy concocted the Hercules, Junior story in order for Neptoone to receive his just rewards while also maintaining his secret.