Superboy # 75 (Source Mycomicshop.com)

1. That time Superboy’s parents had to figure out how to punish him

This… uh… this is a weird one. I’m not quite sure how to write about it, but HERE GOES. And remember, this is a real comic book. In this issue of Superboy, Jonathan Kent wins a father of the year award and Clark reminisces about a time when Jonathan had to learn how to parent Clark and wacky hijinks ensue. We flashback to the past, where Clark is being a disobedient little Superboy. Jonathan tells him to chop a bunch of wood without using his superpowers because… um… not actually sure. Character building, maybe? Sure, let’s go with that.

Clark absolutely refuses and Jonathan decides to punish him the old fashioned way. Unfortunetally, bending Clark over his knee and smacking him on the butt with a hairbrush does not work because he’s Superboy. Although they do try hairbrush spankings at one point.

Hang on, I just need to go check and make sure I’m not writing about slash fiction by accident again.

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Nope! Real comic book!

Anyhoo, Jonathan and Martha decide to just leave Clark forever because he’s a bad child and deserves to be abandoned, I guess? Clark is incredibly depressed until his parents return home, explaining that they didn’t really leave forever, they were just punishing Clark. You know, emotionally!! That sounds super healthy. And explains a lot about Superman’s behavior in the rest of this list.

And with that, let’s stop for now. I’m sure I could find ten MORE examples of Superman being a weird jerk in the fifties and sixties, but that’d make the ones I just listed less special. But if you get a chance, and you wanna read some incredibly strange but super-fun comics, pick up a Superman Showcase and have yourself a grand-old time.