I may have written about this comic before but I came across a reprint of it recently and it reminded me of seeing it for the first time as a boy and being haunted by my inability to find a copy. How on Earth could I have sourced a copy. I never had any money for one thing and another factor was the entirely randomn way American comics were distributed in Northern Ireland. Although, I had no understanding of that at the time.
There I was leafing through some eighty page giant when I saw an advertisment for this issue and my heart skipped a beat. " Oh no! Superboy gets Eaten!". I really thought I was seeing a comic in which Superboy gets devoured by some monstrous alien beast. It never occurred to me that this was very unlikely as Superboy grew up to become Superman. He could not have died behind that rock. Still, a kids mind can be a right old circus of horrors, so I just went with what the cover of Adventure Comics #380 was selling. The idea that a lost Legion was stranded on a savage world where one, or all, of them could be killed by some mysterious beast.
It was to be a long time before I found out what was really going on behind that Curt Swan cover. I was an adult in fact.
I wont tell you what that is, you will have to do a bit of detective work of your own.
Have an adventure, so to speak.
