Comic Title: Superboy #78
Publisher: DC (National Comics Publications, Inc.)
Address: 575 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: January 1960
On Sale Date: November 19, 1959 Newsstand Date November 19, 1959
Source: House Ad, Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane #14, Page 11

Copyright Date November 19, 1959
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1959

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

Title: "The Origin of Superboy's Super-Costume"
Pages: 8

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

Artist: John Sikela

Reprinted In:
Superman Annual #8 (1964)
Superboy Spectacular #1 (1980)

Feature Character(s)

• Superboy (last appearance in Superboy #78; next appearance in Superboy #78)

Supporting Character(s)

• Jonathan Kent (last appearance in Superboy #78; next appearance in Superboy #78)
• Martha Kent (last appearance in Superboy #78; next appearance in Superboy #78)

Flashback Appearance(s)

• Superboy (last appearance in Superboy #23; next appearance in Superboy #8)
• Jonathan Kent (last appearance in Superboy #23; next appearance in Superboy #8)
• Martha Kent (last appearance in Superboy #23; next appearance in Superboy #8)

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

This story contains several flashbacks to Superboy's early life.

Flashback 1 - page 2, panel 5 - page 3, panel 3 - The Kents find Kal-El

Flashback 2 - page 3, panels 4-5 - The Kents adopt Clark

Flashback 3 - page 3, panel 6 - page 4, panel 2 - The Kents discovers Clark's powers

Flashback 4 - page 4, panel 3 - page 5, panel 3 - Martha constructs 1st non-super playsuit

Flashback 5 - page 5, panel 4 - page 7, panel 1 - Martha makes super-playsuit

Flashback 6 - page 7, panel 2 - The Kents move off the farm

Flashback 7 - page 7, panel 3 - Clark's playsuit is put into storage

Flashback 8 - page 7, panel 4 - page 8, panel 5 - Clark makes his super costume

Synopsis:
During an exhibition, Superboy remembers how his super-suit was created. When he was still a baby, Clark’s playsuit was always getting torn because while Clark was invulnerable, the suit was not. During a fire, the Kents discover that the blankets which were in Kal-El’s rocket were invulnerable. Martha unraveled the yarn and sewed together an invulnerable playsuit for Clark. The yarn could only be cut with Clark’s X-ray vision.

Later, when Clark was older and ready to begin his career as a super-hero, Martha Kent enlarged the old playsuit to fit her son. Jonathan and Clark took pieces of the rocket to fashion a belt and boots for the costume. Finally a cape and the famous ‘S’ symbol were added. As Superboy got older the invulnerable material would stretch as he grew.