Comic Title: Superboy #22
Publisher: DC (National Comics Publications, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: Oct/Nov 1952
Approx. On Sale Date: August 13, 1952 Copyright Date August 11, 1952
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1952
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: Bi-monthly
Cover Price: $0.10
Page Count: 40
Editor: Jack Schiff

Title: "Superboy and the Sleeping Beauty"
Pages: 10

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

Writer: France E. Herron
Penciller: Curt Swan
Inker: John Fischetti

Reprinted In:
Greatest 1950s Stories Ever Told HC (1990)
Greatest 1950s Stories Ever Told TPB (1992)

Feature Character(s)

• Superboy (last appearance in Superboy #22; next appearance in Superboy #22)

Supporting Character(s)

• Lana Lang (last appearance in Superboy #22; next appearance in Superboy #22)
• Lewis Lang (last appearance in Superboy #22; next appearance in Superboy #22)

Other Character(s)

• Joe and Alice (Lana Lang's classmates; no further appearances)
• An unnamed colonel (no further appearances)
• Org, Norg, Axel, Maxel, and Jaxel (no further appearances)
• A tribe of pygmies (Wamba named; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Lana Lang brings several authentic artifacts from her father's African collection to school to use as props in a play. One of the artifacts is a blow gun used by native tribesman. Lana accidentally is poked by a dart tipped with poison. She instantly falls asleep. Superboy learns that the poison requires a rare antidote.

Superboy is about to ask Lana's father if he has any of the antidote, but instead learns that Mr. Lang is preparing for a secret government mission. Superboy doesn't want to distract Lang from his important work, so he doesn't tell him about his daughter. In order to fool Mr. Lang, Superboy stages a play in which Lana plays sleeping beauty.

Superboy then flies to Africa and retrieves the antidote from the local natives. He then returns to Smallville and gives the antidote to Lana. She recovers. Mr. Lang doesn't learn that his daughter was poisoned and is able to go on his mission without distraction.