We begin with Superboy in "Easy Rider to Doom" by Frank Robbins, Bob Brown and Murphy Anderson. Bone to pick time. The scene on the cover is inside the book, but it is a dream Superboy is having. Cheap shot by editor Boltinoff. When Crusty, the son of Jonathan's cousin, comes to stay with the Kents while his father moves to Alaska, Clark works hard to protect his secret identity while Crusty is living in their house. Crusty is a bit of a delinquent, stealing money from Martha Kent and attempting to steal a car. Clark tricks Crusty into stealing the getaway car used by a gang of bank robbers. When the car is gone, the crooks are apprehended by the police and Clark and Crusty are given a reward for helping thwart the robbery.
However, the bank manager, Mr. Cullis, is none too happy, as he was the mastermind of the robbery, hoping it would hide his embezzlement of bank monies. When Cullis sees Crusty pick-pocketing money from a teller's purse, he confronts the boy, convincing him to plant a bomb under the bank. Only, Cullins plans for the bomb to kill Crusty. Superboy snatches the bomb away in time and uses it to force a confession from Cullins. When Crusty returns to the Kent's house that night, he finds a note from Superboy and decides to go straight, leaving the house that night to join his father in Alaska.
We end with "Superboy's Biggest Blunder" also by Frank Robbins, Bob Brown and Murphy Anderson. When a tornado throws Superboy back in time, he finds himself in Mongolia near the great wall of China. A young leader named Temujin sees Superboy and seeks an alliance. Superboy refuses to help the young warlord, who demonstrates great cunning of his own. Superboy saves Temujin from two assassins and returns to his own time wondering if he had done the right thing. Later that say in school, Clark learns that Temujin would grow to become known as Genghis Khan.
Edited by Murray Boltinoff.
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