Comic Title: Superman #73
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: Nov/Dec 1951
Approx. On Sale Date: August 31, 1951 Copyright Date August 29, 1951
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1951
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.

Cover Price: $0.10
Page Count: 48
Editor: Mort Weisinger

Title: "The Mighty Mite"
Pages: 12

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

Writer: Bill Finger
Penciller: Wayne Boring
Inker: Stan Kaye

Feature Character(s)

• Superman (last appearance in Superman #72; next appearance in Action Comics #162)

Supporting Character(s)

• Lois Lane (last appearance in Superman #72; next appearance in Action Comics #162)
• Jonathan Kent (in flashback; last appearance in Superboy #8; next appearance in Superboy #26)
• Martha Kent (first name not revealed; in flashback; last appearance in Superboy #8; next appearance in Superboy #26)

Other Character(s)

• Jeremy and Henrietta Kendalls (adoptive parents; in flashback; no further appearances)
• Ermitrude Van Castle (a socialite; in flashback; no further appearances)
• Horace and Cynthia Preston (adoptive parents; in flashback; no further appearances)
• Joe Smith and his wife (in flashback; no further appearances)
• A group of orphans (no further appearances)
• A circus owner (no further appearances)
• The staff at an orphanage (no further appearances)

Flashback Appearance(s)

• Superbaby (as a toddler; last appearance in Superboy #8; next appearance in Superboy #26)

Synopsis:
Superman plans to take a group of orphans to the circus, but a quarantine has made it impossible for them to go. To keep his promise to the children, Superman performs various circus acts outside the orphanage for the children to see.

The act reminds Superman of his own life as a baby. Shortly after being adopted by the Kents, Clark was lost while the family was on a vacation cruise. The Kents thought that he was dead, but he was found and taken to an orphanage. Three families tried to adopt him, but in each case his powers caused the adoptions to fall through. Baby Clark was repeatedly returned to the orphanage where he was eventually reunited with the Kents.