Comic Title: Adventure Comics #493
Publisher: DC (DC Comics Inc.)
Address: 75 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY
Cover Date: November 1982
On Sale Date: August 5, 1982 Newsstand Date August 5, 1982
Source: House Ad, All-Star Squadron #14, Page 32

Newsstand Date August 5, 1982
Source: Comic Reader, #203

Newsstand Date August 5, 1982
Source: Comics Journal, #75

Newsstand Date August 5, 1982
Source: Amazing Heroes, #13

Copyright Date July 20, 1982
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1982
DC publication dates beyond April 1981 listed by the LoC
represent shipping dates NOT newsstand sale dates

Frequency: Monthly
Cover Price: $1.25
Page Count: 96
Editor: Carl Gafford

See Also: The Guide to DC Giants

Title: "Lana Lang and the Legion of Super-Heroes"
Pages: 13

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

Writer: Otto Binder
Artist: George Papp

Reprinted From:
Adventure Comics #282 (1961)

Feature Character(s)

• Superboy (last appearance in Superboy #87; next appearance in Superboy #88)

Guest Star(s)

• Star Boy (first appearance; origin revealed in part; last appearance in Action Comics #267; next appearance in Adventure Comics #317)

Supporting Character(s)

• Jonathan Kent (last appearance in Superboy #87; next appearance in New Adventures of Superboy #23)
• Lana Lang (last appearance in Superboy #87; next appearance in Superboy #88)
• Lewis Lang (last appearance in Adventure Comics #280; next appearance in Superboy #88)
• Mrs. Lang (last appearance in Adventure Comics #279; next appearance in Adventure Comics #285)

Villain(s)

• Two unnamed Xanthusian criminals (no further appearances)

Guest Appearance(s)

• Legion of Super-Heroes (appear in flashback to Star Boy’s induction; last appearance in Action Comics #267; next appearance in Action Comics #276)
• Cosmic Boy (appears in flashback to Star Boy’s induction; last appearance in Action Comics #267; next appearance in Action Comics #276)
• Saturn Girl (appears in flashback to Star Boy’s induction; last appearance in Action Comics #267; next appearance in Action Comics #276)
• Lightning Lad (appears in flashback to Star Boy’s induction; last appearance in Action Comics #267; next appearance in Action Comics #276)
• Chameleon Boy (appears in flashback to Star Boy’s induction; last appearance in Action Comics #267; next appearance in Action Comics #276)
• Triplicate Girl (appears in flashback to Star Boy’s induction; mistakenly depicted with blond hair in this story; mostly behind the scenes in this story; last appearance in Legion of Super-Heroes #295; next appearance in Action Comics #276)
• Colossal Boy (appears in flashback to Star Boy’s induction; mistakenly depicted with reddish hair in this story; mostly behind the scenes in this story; last appearance in Action Comics #267; next appearance in Action Comics #276)

Other Character(s)

• Fryd and Mira Kallor (first appearance; Star Boy’s parents; appear in flashback to Star Boy’s origin; last appearance in Legion of Super-Heroes #306; next appearance in Adventure Comics #356)
• Zynthia (Star Boy’s girl friend; no further appearances)
• Patients of Smallville Hospital (no further appearances)
• A parakat (a feline creature of planet Xanthu; no further appearances)

Comments:
The flashback to Star Boy’s induction in this story takes place immediately following the second story of Action Comics #267. By process of elimination, Star Boy must be the new member inducted instead of Supergirl when she fails her first initiation test in that story.

The presence of Colossal Boy and Triplicate Girl in this story revealed in flashback in Legion of Super-Heores #306.

This story is based in part on "Lana Lang’s Romance on Mars" from the first story of Adventure Comics #195.

Synopsis:
Outside Smallville, Superboy meets Star Boy, a Legionnaire from the future, with powers similar to his own. Star Boy explains that he has come to capture two criminals who have fled to 20th century Earth. He has already caught one, and enlists the aid of the Boy of Steel to snare the other, but not before Lana Lang overhears their conversation and Star Boy’s reference to his secret identity. She waits for Superboy to leave, then approaches the Legionnaire and tells him that she will reveal his secret to the imprisoned criminal unless he makes Superboy jealous by pretending to fall in love with her and taking her with him to Xanthu.

However, Superboy learns of her scheme, and, after helping Star Boy and Lana trail the second criminal to Xanthu, turns the tables on her by pretending to be interested in Star Boy’s girlfriend Zynthia. Defeated, Lana confesses her plot, and is brought back home.