Issue Details

Issue	#1
Published	March-April 1949
Cover Price	0.10 USD
Pages	52
Editing	Whitney Ellsworth (credited); Jack Schiff (actual)

Cover Details - "Superman, what were you like when you were a boy?"

Characters	Superman; (no Superboy)
Genre	superhero
Pencils	Wayne Boring
Inks	Stan Kaye
Reprinted	in Superboy (DC, 1949 series) #1; in Superboy (DC, 1949 series) #157; in Millennium Edition: Superboy No. 1 (DC, 2001 series) #nn

12 page Superboy story "The Man Who Could See Tomorrow!"

Characters	Superman; Lois Lane; Superboy (flashback); Brandar the Great; Margo Griffiths
Synopsis	Brandar the Great predicts the future. At a party attended by young Clark Kent he predicted that Margo Griffiths, now a young nurse in Metropolis, would cease to exist on her 21st birthday.
Genre	superhero
Script	Don Cameron ?
Pencils	John Sikela
Inks	Ed Dobrotka ?
Notes	really a Superman story, with the Superboy segment as a flashback.
Reprinted	in Millennium Edition: Superboy No. 1 (DC, 2001 series) #nn

1 page Superboy's Workshop activity "Rocket Plane"

Genre	superhero
Pencils	Al Wenzel
Inks	Al Wenzel

2 page Shorty filler

Genre	gag
Script	Henry Boltinoff
Pencils	Henry Boltinoff
Inks	Henry Boltinoff
Letters	Henry Boltinoff

10 page Superboy story "The Boy Vandals!"

Characters	Superboy; The Smash and Grab Gang
Synopsis	Superboy teaches some young vandals a lesson.
Genre	superhero
Script	Ed Hamilton
Pencils	Al Wenzel
Inks	Stan Kaye ?
Notes	takes place in Metropolis. art id by Bob Hughes 10/07- Art id in the Superboy Millennium edition is incorrect.
Reprinted	in Millennium Edition: Superboy No. 1 (DC, 2001 series) #nn

1 page Daffy & Doodle filler

Pencils

Lit-win

2 page text article "The Language of the Sea"

Script	Cliff Rhodes
Pencils	Raymond Perry
Inks	Raymond Perry
Letters	typeset
Notes	text page

2 page Sagebrush Sam filler

Genre	gag
Script	Henry Boltinoff
Pencils	Henry Boltinoff
Inks	Henry Boltinoff
Letters	Henry Boltinoff

Half page Shorty filler

Genre	gag
Script	Henry Boltinoff
Pencils	Henry Boltinoff
Inks	Henry Boltinoff
Letters	Henry Boltinoff

12 page Superboy story "Superboy Meets Mighty Boy!"

Characters	Mighty Boy (intro); Superboy; Jay V. Atkins
Synopsis	A young boy is duped by an unscrupulous promoter into thinking he's stronger than Superboy.
Genre	superhero
Script	William Woolfolk ?
Pencils	Al Wenzel
Inks	Al Wenzel
Notes	takes place in Metropolis. Art id by Bob Hughes 10/07- art id in The Millennium reprint is incorrect.
Reprinted	in Millennium Edition: Superboy No. 1 (DC, 2001 series) #nn

1 page Homer filler

Genre	gag
Script	Henry Boltinoff
Pencils	Henry Boltinoff
Inks	Henry Boltinoff
Letters	Henry Boltinoff