Mort Weisinger’s enthusiasm for swiping yarn solutions from earlier components of Superboy doesn’t seem as high because it used to be for Lag Comics, but here’s a colorful impressive instance of a double swipe. For starters, here is the quilt to Superboy #52 (October 1956):
And Superboy #85 (December 1960):
As you can spy, in each conditions, Superboy is startled to behold one other colossal-powered boy on an alien planet. He changes into civilian attire and confronts the lad:
The replacement boy comes from a startling field:
Clark realizes how the replacement boy bought his powers:
So it appears love Superboy is in the end going to have a colossal-powered buddy. Nonetheless as they initiating off together, something occurs:
Superboy in the end realizes that it be his presence that is causing the replacement superlad to lose his powers, and thus he must shuffle away, resulting in a sad ending:
Weisinger recycled that ending in Superboy #87 (March 1961), in a Krypto yarn. Krypto rescues a inconceivable feminine dogs:
You have gotten got gotta love that he calls her Toots. She doesn’t have colossal-powers, nonetheless it appears that Krypto knows the set she will be able to derive some:
And so she drinks from the pool and turns into colossal. Unfortunately:
Krypto soon realizes that he’s no longer colossal when end to Kolli, and so we derive the identical ending as within the two Superboy tales: