Source: Superboy vol.1 #142 (1968)
Type: Red K transformation
Put your crazy hat on, it's the Silver Age!
So it all starts when a pearl forms around a grain of red kryptonite irritating an oyster's innards.
A guy finds it in a Smallville restaurant (oh, those fresh Kansas oysters!) where Clark and Lana are having lunch. He feels the tingle and excuses himself. His DNA takes the pattern of the first creature of another species he sees - a organ grinder's monkey.
As the editor's note says, in "Superboy's time", there was a lot of organ grinding going on. Soon, Clark is THINKING like a monkey and is adopted by the grinder out to make a fortune with his super-strong ape. Meanwhile, Lana sees all this as just another opportunity to prove that Clark Kent is Superboy (seems to me she was even more of a pest than Lois was going to be). She takes the monkey from the hard-working street performer using confusing legalese:
This is corroborated by the town dog catcher. I better get a license for my cat before someone else does! But Lana has gotten more than she bargained for as the "Super-Monk" starts imitating behavior, like a boy flying a kite.
Telephone wire trucks make great kites, don't they? Cue a Red K secondary effect! The super-ape grows to King Kong size and rips a school filled with kids from the ground.
Note: There's this whole explanation that the school is filled with kids going to summer school, apparently to justify that Clark and Lana aren't in school themselves, you know, because they had to be at an oyster bar for the story to happen. Umm... why not just make the building a bank or post office instead? Lana uses a little girl's doll house to show the ape what to do (fix the school). We then move our point of view to Africa where Beppo the ACTUAL Super-Monkey is beating up on gorillas.
Beppo is the Kryptonian monkey that stowed away baby Kal-El's rocket, if you didn't know. He gets bored with his jungle friends, and with his telescopic vision sees that Superboy has become a giant ape. He flies over to investigate and runs into the Red K oyster guy. And because he has an image of Superboy in his mind...
... he becomes Superboy (thankfully with human intelligence). He quickly disguises himself as Clark Kent to confound Lana and uses his super-ventriloquism to make it convincing, and then to call the giant ape away. Once out of town, the Red K wears off and Beppo quickly explains what's going on to Superboy. And then the secondary effect kicks in, and a giant Superboy (actually Beppo, hope you're following this) carries the real Clark back into town.
Lana is convinced that Clark and Superboy can't be the same person (until the conveniently forgets all this proof next month). Smallville feels more unchanging than Riverdale, sometimes.
Type: Red K transformation
Put your crazy hat on, it's the Silver Age!So it all starts when a pearl forms around a grain of red kryptonite irritating an oyster's innards.
A guy finds it in a Smallville restaurant (oh, those fresh Kansas oysters!) where Clark and Lana are having lunch. He feels the tingle and excuses himself. His DNA takes the pattern of the first creature of another species he sees - a organ grinder's monkey.
As the editor's note says, in "Superboy's time", there was a lot of organ grinding going on. Soon, Clark is THINKING like a monkey and is adopted by the grinder out to make a fortune with his super-strong ape. Meanwhile, Lana sees all this as just another opportunity to prove that Clark Kent is Superboy (seems to me she was even more of a pest than Lois was going to be). She takes the monkey from the hard-working street performer using confusing legalese:
This is corroborated by the town dog catcher. I better get a license for my cat before someone else does! But Lana has gotten more than she bargained for as the "Super-Monk" starts imitating behavior, like a boy flying a kite.
Telephone wire trucks make great kites, don't they? Cue a Red K secondary effect! The super-ape grows to King Kong size and rips a school filled with kids from the ground.
Note: There's this whole explanation that the school is filled with kids going to summer school, apparently to justify that Clark and Lana aren't in school themselves, you know, because they had to be at an oyster bar for the story to happen. Umm... why not just make the building a bank or post office instead? Lana uses a little girl's doll house to show the ape what to do (fix the school). We then move our point of view to Africa where Beppo the ACTUAL Super-Monkey is beating up on gorillas.
Beppo is the Kryptonian monkey that stowed away baby Kal-El's rocket, if you didn't know. He gets bored with his jungle friends, and with his telescopic vision sees that Superboy has become a giant ape. He flies over to investigate and runs into the Red K oyster guy. And because he has an image of Superboy in his mind...
... he becomes Superboy (thankfully with human intelligence). He quickly disguises himself as Clark Kent to confound Lana and uses his super-ventriloquism to make it convincing, and then to call the giant ape away. Once out of town, the Red K wears off and Beppo quickly explains what's going on to Superboy. And then the secondary effect kicks in, and a giant Superboy (actually Beppo, hope you're following this) carries the real Clark back into town.
Lana is convinced that Clark and Superboy can't be the same person (until the conveniently forgets all this proof next month). Smallville feels more unchanging than Riverdale, sometimes.
Comments
Ever read "The War Time Forgot"?
Well, I was going to call shenanigans on the copious amount of organ grinders, even more so than the Kansas oysters, but, well, they got me covered, I guess...