Comic Title: Superboy #12
Publisher: DC (National Comics Publications, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: Jan/Feb 1951
Approx. On Sale Date: November 17, 1950 Copyright Date November 15, 1950
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1950
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: 48
Editor: Jack Schiff

Title: "The Puppet That Came to Life"
Pages: 12

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

Penciller: John Sikela
Inker: Ed Dobrotka

Feature Character(s)

• Superboy (last appearance in Superboy #12; next appearance in Superboy #12)

Villain(s)

• Getaway Gatlin (a con man; no further appearances)
• Wilson and Hennon (crooked contractors; no further appearances)
• Roberts (a candidate for mayor; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Harold Reynolds and Twinkly (a ventriloquist and his puppet; no further appearances)
• Lem Hawkins and Carl (a Smallville resident and Clark's cousin; no further appearances)
• The real Twinkly and his father (no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Twinkly, a television puppet controlled by Harold Reynolds, is popular with children across the country. Criminal, Getaway Gatlin, replaces Twinkly with a real boy and forces him to help his criminal enterprises. Superboy thwarts Gatlin's efforts to make money from Twinkly's reputation.

Superboy then exposes Gatlin's scheme, whereby the Twinkly puppet was replaced by the boy who modeled for it. Gatlin had kidnapped the boy's father, the woodcarver who created Twinkly. With boy and father safe, Superboy apprehends Gatlin. Reynolds then uses a copper version of Twinkly created by Superboy until the woodcarver can create another puppet.