Comic Title: Superboy #45
Publisher: DC (National Comics Publications, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: December 1955
Approx. On Sale Date: October 4, 1955 Copyright Date October 2, 1955
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1955
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, with the exception of Feb., May, Aug., and Nov.
Cover Price: $0.10
Page Count: 32
Editor: Mort Weisinger

Title: "A Trap for Superboy"
Pages: 8

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

Artist: John Sikela

Feature Character(s)

• Superboy (last appearance in Superboy #45; next appearance in Adventure Comics #219)

Supporting Character(s)

• Jonathan Kent (last appearance in Superboy #45; next appearance in Adventure Comics #219)
• Lana Lang (last appearance in Superboy #45; next appearance in Adventure Comics #219)

Other Character(s)

• A science teacher (no further appearances)

Synopsis:
When a meteor lands near Smallville Superboy decides to convince Lana that it is Kryptonite. Lana takes a piece of the meteorite to see if the stone is Kryptonite. When near the stone Superboy pretends to be weak. He then assumes that Lana will try to use the Kryptonite to prove that Clark is Superboy.

However, Lana's piece of meteor rock is exchanges for actually Kryptonite without her knowledge. When she throw it at Clark, he is really weakened. She becomes convinced that he is Superboy.

Superboy then is forced to contrive an excuse that the rock hit his head and knocked him out. Using a Superboy dummy, he then explains the situation to Lana. Jonathan switches the rocks back, and Lana sees that the fake Kryptonite has no effect on Clark.