What a great cover, I dig the vibrant mod colors and all that.

I didn't know Neal Adams did covers on Superboy, they are great, colors included.

It seems like a pretty cool comic to me... :/

Martin Redmond (in part): "I didn't know Neal Adams did covers on Superboy, they are great, colors included."

Oh, Martin, Neal did all but a handful of Silver Age Superboy covers between #s 143 - 178, and inked some of those penciled by Curt Swan.  THIS one has remained my all-time favorite All-Adams Superboy cover (though there are MANY runners-up!):

If I've posted this link correctly:

Superboy/Covers - DC Comics Database

you can enjoy them, too!

Note, too, from a historical perspective, that it reflects the almost pathological need to AGE the characters that began to sneak into comics around this time. Even tho Superboy's adventures were set in an undefined Past, so there was no need whatsoever to reference the passage of time, the top copy on the cover bumped him from "Superman when he was a BOY" to "Superman when he was a TEEN". Around this time the Legion of Superheroes also went thru puberty rather dramatically!

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DC's "official" response to those who did the math when Robin suddenly sprang forward in age, was to insist that Bruce had been younger than we had supposed when he began his career as Batman, AND when he adopted Dick as his ward. I have heard the beginning of Batman's career scaled back as far as him being 18, and perhaps as young as 21 when he teamed up with the 12 year old Robin.

Which, reflecting on the DOONESBURY strip quoted in another thread today, does start to lean toward the creepy!

I hate when people try to give specific ages to comics characters. What's wrong with just using what you might call age-archetypes?

Spider-Man and the Human Torch are (or should be) teenagers.

Captain America, Daredevil, Clark Kent, Barry Allen, etc are adults but still young.

Reed Richards, Dr. Strange, Nick Fury are older adults.

Aunt May is elderly.

It's so simple, but some people have this urge to complicate it.

Probably did not seem unreasonable, at the time, to make these pronouncements. Marvel was still "The Little Company that Couldn't", and it has long been assumed that some of the more non-traditional elements Stan and the gang tried out -- such as the very obvious passing of real time in the early issues -- was due to their expectations that the new books would fail fairly quickly. As I have pointed out before, we see the brakes being applied, as far as the passage of time, very hard once it becomes apparent that Marvel is NOT going to "go away" this time. (The failure of THE INCREDIBLE HULK must've put the fear of Dog into 'em for a moment, tho!)