Comic Title: Superboy #87
Publisher: DC (National Comics Publications, Inc.)
Address: 575 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: March 1961
On Sale Date: January 5, 1961 Copyright Date January 5, 1961
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1961

Newsstand Date January 5, 1961
Source: Newsdealer Magazine, V15 #11

Frequency: Monthly, with the exception of Feb., May, Aug., and Nov.
Cover Price: $0.10
Page Count: 32
Circulation: 637000
Editor: Mort Weisinger

Title: "The Scarlet Jungle of Krypton"
Pages: 9

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

Writer: Jerry Siegel
Artist: George Papp

Feature Character(s)

• Superboy (last appearance in Superboy #87; next appearance in Adventure Comics #282)

Supporting Character(s)

• Jonathan Kent (last appearance in Superboy #87; next appearance in Adventure Comics #282)
• Martha Kent (last appearance in Superboy #87; next appearance in New Adventures of Superboy #23)
• Krypto (in flashback; last appearance in Superboy #83; next appearance in Superboy #104)
• Jor-El (in flashback; last appearance in Superboy #83; next appearance in Superboy #104)
• Lara (in flashback; last appearance in Superboy #83; next appearance in Superboy #104)

Villain(s)

• A Kryptonian Thought-Screen Beast and another jungle creature (no further appearances)

Flashback Appearance(s)

• Kal-El (last appearance in Superboy #83; next appearance in Superboy #104)

Comments:
This story is presented as "An Untold Story of Superboy".

Synopsis:
Superboy uses his mind-prober ray to learn more about his life on Krypton. He learns that Jor-El built a teleporter ray which caused the object teleported to explode. Young Kal-El turns the machine on himself by mistake and is teleported to Krypton’s Scarlet Jungle. Fortunately he does not explode because of the short distance which he was transported.

Kal-El is nearly attacked by a jungle creature which displays its thoughts through a thought-screen on its head. After a series of encounters with other jungle creatures, Kal is returned to Jor-El’s laboratory when Krypto accidentally triggers the machine to return him. Jor-El and Lara were never aware of their son’s trip to the jungle.